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re: Trying to install an OS without a CD drive ?
Friday, July 13, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by anu
(240 messages posted)
I got the idea. But how can he copy the installation files from the CD to hard drive
so that he can run setup?
On Friday, July 13, 2007 at 11:47 am, Kiwi wrote:
>A search should've collected dozens of answers for you. This same thing comes up
>relatively frequently (I think my own question about it, back 4-5 years or so, maybe
>a little less, is what first brought me here!)
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>All you have to do is copy the contents of the CD to a folder on the Hdd, use the
>"Sys" command while running a Win9X OS to put a basic DOS 7 bootup OS fragment on
>the drive, and then run the install from the Hdd folder.
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>You don't need to go to the trouble and expense of trying to use an external CD
drive
>for the purpose at all (and a question comes up about how many BIOSes are flexible
>enough to allow booting from external CDs, which would be the simplest method, it
>it could be used . . )
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>Kiwi
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