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    Installing

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mattireland, Jul 1, 2007.

  1. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Hi,

    My friends CD drive is too old to boot from and he wants to install Windows. I've suggested creating a floppy boot disk telling it to get the stuff from the legit Windows CD only I've forgotton how to do this.

    Please help! Thanks!
     
    mattireland, Jul 1, 2007
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    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    I've got to do this by tommorrow so really would appreciate some help please!
     
    mattireland, Jul 1, 2007
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  3. Thibault

    Thibault Banned

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    His CD drive is too old? I thought you could always boot from the CD if you set the it in the BIOS but I guess my memory is wrong.

    Since I don't remember I did a search on google and came up with this. I hope it helps.
     
    Thibault, Jul 1, 2007
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  4. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Yeh he got it out of a skip yesterday...

    Thanks for the reply but have you got any other things that might help?

    Thans again.
     
    mattireland, Jul 1, 2007
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  5. Thibault

    Thibault Banned

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    The link I gave you above was no good?

    What OS does he have?
     
    Thibault, Jul 1, 2007
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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    He need to either buy a new CD-ROM (easier, but more expensive) or take out his hard drive, load MS DOS and a copy of the XP image on it (free, but way more complicated).
     
    hehe299792458, Jul 1, 2007
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    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    Before buying a new CD-ROM drive, have your friend check the BIOS - if the BIOS doesn't support booting from CD, then he has to either boot from a floppy or format the hard drive, make it bootable via MS-DOS, copy the files from the CD to the hard drive (in a separate partition), then install from MS-DOS.

    Here's a useful link:

    http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm#a
     
    kegobeer, Jul 1, 2007
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