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Answer» it would be really helpful if someone could help me with this..... THINGS i have :- The questions are: In 1. Please give details of the hdd manufacturer/model, partitioning and file system. In 2. Please give details of the desktop, manufacturer (if known), operating system, hardware. Which version of MS_Dos do you intend installing in your laptop hdd bearing in mind that if your desktop is running XP true MS-Dos does not exist. Do you have access to any installed MS-Dos version on cd (I assume your laptop and desktop both have cdrom or cdrw.) hello dusty, 1) laptop hdd 12gb IBM-DARA 212000, I have partitioned it into two partitions FAT32 system 2) desktop: 7yrs old machine with celeron 333, winxp professional, has CD rom well the thing is my laptop floppy drive and dvd/cd drive are erratic and as good as non functional. my laptop crashed. i took out the laptop hdd and formated it by attaching it to my desktop via IDE to USB adapter. i have copied winxp cd files on one partition of laptop hdd. now i want to put back the hard disk in laptop and BOOT MY LAPTOP FROM THE HDD, after which i will run setup exe in dos from the other partition. i have done this before, but someone made my laptop HDD bootable. for last few days i have searched extensively, but didnt COME across any thing simple to run. as i am not a computer professional so writing scripts is difficult.Hello Anil. You sure are asking for the just-about-impossible. If you had a working floppy drive on either machine it would be a piece of cake to get going with Dos on your laptop hdd, without one and without access to a cdrom on your laptop - wow what a challenge. Is it not possible for you to get access to yet another pc with a floppy, do none of your friends have an elderly pc they'd let you use for just an hour or so? And yet another QUESTION, is it not possible for you to replace the floppy and cdrom on your laptop? Parts are available. Anyway, I can tell you that XP Setup will not run in any Dos environment, if you are eventually able to install Dos on your hdd you must use WINNT.EXE The instructions from the XP Startup disk are "Make a folder on your hard drive named XP and then copy the contents of the I386 folder from the cd to it first. Then navigate to that folder and type WINNT.EXE" However - here is a long shot which might work for you but I doubt it. Install XP on your laptop hdd while it is fitted in the desktop. You might get lucky!! I suggest you disconnect all other hard drives in the desktop while you do this. Yes, I know XP will probably install incorrect hardware drivers for your laptop, as I said it's a long shot. Sorry I can't be more helpful.Quote Anyway, I can tell you that XP Setup will not run in any Dos environment, if you are eventually able to install Dos on your hdd you must use WINNT.EXE WINNT.EXE is a DOS executable. Some people say that the DOS autoexec.bat needs a line to load Smartdrv , but I managed without that. Quote from: contrex on August 07, 2007, 05:32:48 AM QuoteAnyway, I can tell you that XP Setup will not run in any Dos environment, if you are eventually able to install Dos on your hdd you must use WINNT.EXE Thanks for your INPUT Contrex. AGREE with you. I put in the quoted lines as the OP indicated a wish to boot to Dos and run Setup.exe which, in my experience, is not possible. I've puzzled long and large as to how a bootable OS could be installed on the laptop hdd using just the hardware available but it's beyond me. Without a floppy or cd writer it seems an impossible dream. Any solution from your end? Regards Another option. This one lets you hook up the drive to any IDE CONNECTOR. But the only OS this may work with that's not driver dependent may be Win98 or DOS 6.2... Even then your still going to be in a pickle without a CDRom drive to install XP and the drivers needed... |
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