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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:22 pm
Posted by jon
(6 messages posted)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
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>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
I'm interested in this too,,,if the computer won't boot to a CD ROM,,you have to
install win 98 first,,then install xp over it,,,what a pain!! Let me know what else
you figure out.
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:25 pm
Posted by jon
(6 messages posted)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
>
>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
oh yea,,,when i tried the setup file,,,using a 98 startup disk,,it told me it could
not do it in a dos environment. I wonder if i copied the startup disk to c/ after
i formated,,would it see that as win98 and install over it?
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:58 pm
Posted by bill
(383 messages posted)
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum_search?words=boot+floppy&recent=1000&sort=Relevance&requested=winxp
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
>
>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 2:00 am
Posted by Jude
(3 messages posted)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:25 pm, jon wrote:
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>On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
>
>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
>
>
>oh yea,,,when i tried the setup file,,,using a 98 startup disk,,it told me it could
>not do it in a dos environment. I wonder if i copied the startup disk to c/ after
>i formated,,would it see that as win98 and install over it?
the setup file in the root of the CD gives that messase yes, if you move to the "i386"
folder, and do a search for .exe's there are two obvious ones (winnt and winnt32
from memory), one of those will run from DOS...
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 2:02 am
Posted by Jude
(3 messages posted)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:22 pm, jon wrote:
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>On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
>
>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
>
>I'm interested in this too,,,if the computer won't boot to a CD ROM,,you have to
>install win 98 first,,then install xp over it,,,what a pain!! Let me know what else
>you figure out.
windows 98 has never frequented my system. i just used a win98 boot disk, which gave
me the option to start with/without cd rom support, and another option. select with
cd, navigate over, and as per my other reply....
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 5:04 am
Posted by Woolly Beamish
(10 messages posted)
Your system should boot from your CD drive with the XP installation CD. You should
be able to go into safe mode by pressing F8 key rapidly a few times just after the
CMOS boot message on boot up. You must be running a old system. My system has a CMOS
setting to recognize my CD drive and boot up as a system disk. Has yours?
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
>
>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 4:22 am
Posted by andre
(1 messages posted)
You should enter your bios and set the Boot order so that your cdrom is accessed
first. This way, the computer will boot the XP CD in the drive and allow the system
to startup.
On Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 5:04 am, Woolly Beamish wrote:
>Your system should boot from your CD drive with the XP installation CD. You should
>be able to go into safe mode by pressing F8 key rapidly a few times just after the
>CMOS boot message on boot up. You must be running a old system. My system has a
CMOS
>setting to recognize my CD drive and boot up as a system disk. Has yours?
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 7:29 pm
Posted by rohit
(2 messages posted)
to your question guys do this boot with the floppy and choose with cd-rom support
once the command prompt comes type this:
%cdrom%\i386\winnt.exe /s:%cdrom%\i386
*%cdrom% - is your cd rom drive
have fun
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:22 pm, jon wrote:
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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 10:52 am
Posted by sknight
(1 messages posted)
WOOT! Thanks a bunch! Worked like a charm after I tried half a dozen fixes!
On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 7:29 pm, rohit wrote:
>to your question guys do this boot with the floppy and choose with cd-rom support
>once the command prompt comes type this:
>
>%cdrom%\i386\winnt.exe /s:%cdrom%\i386
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>*%cdrom% - is your cd rom drive
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>have fun
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