re: Installing XP from ms-dos (with no os installed)
Monday, February 7, 2005 at 7:06 am
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Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
EMERGENCY BOOT DISK FREEWARE
Normally you change the boot sequence in the BIOS to get the computer to boot directly
from the XP CD. (Has it got SP2, btw?)
However you can avoid doing this by following this procedure:
If the machine has a floppy drive, download oldbios.exe , from the bottom of the
downloads page, to another computer's hard-drive, and make an OLDBIOS redirector
boot floppy.
http://ebcd.pcministry.com
Put a clean formatted floppy in the A: drive and double-click on the downloaded oldbios.exe
file. This will make the boot floppy for you.
When you get back to your own machine, put the floppy in the A: drive, start the
machine, and put your CD in the CD-ROM drive as the computer starts up.
If it does not direct you to the CD the first time, you might have to try again.
The OLDBIOS floppy works in most machines with a floppy drive and simply redirects
the boot process from the floppy, which is first in the boot process, to the CD-ROM
drive allowing the CD to run.
This way you don't have to enter the BIOS to change anything.
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