re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly
Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 8:51 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Marc
(51 messages posted)
Bob,
I tried, but rawrite2 cannot write my floppy: "can't figure out how many sectors
for this diskette"
And anyway, my W98SE doesn't even recognise anymore my CD/RW (and dannot find the
driver)
On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 12:07 pm, Aspen Bob wrote:
>Marc ,,,, here's a link and some text about USB driver
>
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>http://www.addonics.com/support/download/usb/USBboot.zip
>You will also need to download rawrite2.exe to blow out the img file....
>
>Installing Windows using USB connection
>
>The following procedures have been tested to work successfully with various Notebook
>and Desktop computers by our engineers. Because of the growing complexity of new
>computer hardware and software, there is always possibility that the USB DOS driver
>and the installation procedures that we provide cannot enable you to install the
>Windows OS onto your system. In this case, you may need to check with your hardware
>manufacturers to determine the problem. Addonics cannot provide any technical support
>beyond our own products as our technical staffs have no knowledge of the computer
>hardware and software that you have. Often time, there might be existing hardware
>problems or damaged installation CDs that prevent the proper installation of the
>Windows OS. Please note that the current USB DOS driver can only support USB 1.1
>speed.
>
>As always, you should make a back up copy of all your important data before reinstalling
>the Windows OS. Addonics is not liable for data loss, time loss or claim of system
>damage resulted from the instructions outlined below. We welcome any valuable inputs
>you can provide us so we can continue to improve our services and products. Please
>email all your comments to atc@addonics.com or any technical related questions to
>techinfo@addonics.com.
>
>* Make sure you have enough space in your local hard drive. At least 4Gb or higher.
>The USB cable is an Addonics USB 2.0 interface cable.
>
>The process involved
>
>A. Set up the USB drives under DOS mode (step 1 - 9)
>B. Copy folders and files from your Windows installation CD to the hard drives (step
>10 - 17)
>C. start the software installation
>
>Installing Windows 2000, XP, 98SE or Me using the Addonics USB CD-ROM, DVD-ROM,
DVD/CDRW
>or DVD-R/RW drive.
>
>Download USB DOS driver and Save the file to your hard drive.
>Use Winzip to extract the file, if you do not have the Winzip program you may get
>a shareware version here www.winzip.com
>Once Winzip is installed, use the program to extract the file.
>Open the folder name USBboot and execute the rawrite2.exe
>When prompt for the image name, enter dosboot.img
>Enter the floppy drive as your destination drive, which in general is the A:\
>Place a disk into the floppy drive and press enter
>When it is done, reboot with this disk to use the USB devices.
>CDROM drives will be using the Drive R:\
>Hard Drives will be using the next letter available. Please note there will be no
>letter for the hard drive if it has not been partitioned and formatted. If you are
>not familiar with partitioning or formating a hard drive, please go to the following
>Microsoft link for the information http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255867
>If everything went well, you should have a drive R:\ for the CDROM drive. You are
>now ready to copy the I386 folder from the Windows 2000 or XP installation CD to
>the hard drive.
>At the prompt, go to the C:\drive by typing “C:" then "Enter”
>At the Local Drive C:\drive, create a Folder name. For example at the C:\prompt
type
>“MD 2k”. Doing this will create a folder name “2K” on your
>local hard drive.
>Now type “R": then "Enter” to go to the R:\drive
>At the R:\ prompt type the following “Path=A:" then press "Enter
>Now type “Xcopy . /s C:\2k" then press "Enter” (There is a space between
>Xcopy and the dot)
>Once the copy process is completed, go to the C:\drive.
>Open the folder you have created, in this case it is the 2k folder. For example:
>from the C:\ prompt type “CD 2k" then press "Enter”
>Now go to the I386 folder by typing CD I386 then Enter, from the C:\I386 type Winnt
>and enter.
>Installation should now start. Follow instruction from your Operating System manual
>on how to install the OS. (Installation will take some time, Please be patient)
>
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>Installing Windows 98SE or Me using the Addonics USB CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD/CDRW or
>DVD-R/RW drive.
>
>The procedures are practically identical to Windows 2000 or XP as described above.
>Except instead of copying the I386 folder to the hard drive, you will copy the Windows
>98SE folder or the Windows Me folder to the hard drive.
>
>First, follow step 1 through 10 above. Make sure you have enough space in your local
>hard drive. At least 2Gb or higher.
>If everything went well, you should have a drive R:\ for the CDROM drive.
>At the prompt, go to the C:\drive by typing “C: then enter”
>At the Local Drive C:\drive, create a Folder name. For example at the C:\prompt
type
>“MD 98” doing this will create a folder name “98” on your
>local hard drive.
>Now type “R: then enter” to go to the R:\drive
>At the R:\prompt type the following “Path=A:" then press enter
>Now type “Xcopy . /s C:\98" then press "Enter” (There is a space between
>Xcopy and the dot)
>Once the copy process is completed, go to the C:\drive. Open the folder you have
>created, in this case it is the 98 folder. For example: from the C:\prompt type
“CD
>98" then press "Enter”
>Now go to the 98 folder type "CD win98" then "Enter", from the C:\win98 type "Setup"
>and "enter".
>Installation should now start. Follow instruction from your Operating System manual
>on how to install the OS. (Installation will take some time, Please be patient)
>
>Destination drive - using USB floppy or other equivalent of removable storage device.
>
>If your system does not have a built-in floppy drive, you may use a USB floppy,
ZIP
>drive, CD or USB hard drive. But your system BIOS must have support for booting
from
>USB floppy, ZIP, CD-ROM or hard drive. Make sure the media that you use to boot
the
>system contains all the files from the dosboot.img in step 5.
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