CF-28mk3 recovery discs & COA

Hi all,
I have a 28mk3 with Win2kPro COA and thought it'd be good to affix a retail XP sticker to it, so I can legitimately dual boot either OS.

With the kind assistance from Tomcat, I finally got me a set of recovery discs for the mk3, albeit for XP.

When I swapped in a new HDD, partitioned and ready to go, I booted up from the CD, only to see "Does not support this model", which in itself, is interesting because the mk3's bios and hardware are identical.

I dug into the CDs but am pretty clueless, so for discussion sake and with the mindset of learning something new (and not infringing on copyrighted issues), is there a workaround for this?

If both Tomcat and I deserved a kick in the butt, that's what the PM is for! Thanks!
Ron in SG

 

Toughnut.

Not sure if the recovery disk is the same as some of the new driver files however on some of those a script is run during the boot up which checks the model number against what it expects. Sometimes this can muck things up. You may want to try and boot from the hard drive and then start the XP setup rather than allowing it to boot from the CD.

You may find that the recovery CD is type specific - i.e. the script it runs looks at more than just the CF-28 Mk3 level and may even look at the options - can't see why but I suppose it is a possibility.

When I dueal booted mine, I already had a Windows XP upgrade disck from my old PC which I wiped and dissassembled, I upgraded from an old Windows 98 CD (it asks in the upgrade for a valid licensed copy). I Fdisked the hard drive and partitioned it as I wanted and then went out and bought a full copy of Windows 2K and installed this on the other partition so rather than using recovery disks I used a clean install.

Also just had a thought, the Windows XP recovery disk may check the boot sector to see what was on there originally - in this way it mind find that it is not appropriate to recover a Windows 2K machine to Windows XP - that isn't a recovery, it's an upgrade (depends on your view of XP I guess ).

I guess either way it may not work recovering the XP onto an already built machine. I guess a workaround may be to recover a blank HDD (it should cope with this), then hopefully in the recover process you can partition the disk like you want and then load Win 2K.

Cheers
Andy