Hi, everyone. I've been looking all over the internet for the last couple of hours for an answer to my question and I have yet to come up with one that makes any sense to me. Here's the deal: I want to copy my windows xp cd to my hard drive and then restart my machine and reinstall windows xp from my hard drive. Why install from the cd when I can install from my hard drive in 1/8 of the time, right? I read this http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t27603.html and I was very disappointed. The original question seems to echo mine, but the answers are bullcrap. dekaranger: go to where? how? when? why? Am I to navigate, in windows, to the I386 folder? If so, how do I type "winnt" and expect it to do something? Why can't people be more specific? "Don't forget your cd-key?" What the hell? I don't need it because your response makes no sense! jamadakaso wants to know (I guess) something about his/her "first harddrive." I don't know what that means, and the response is equally confusing. nolookingca: winnt - dos, winnt32 - windows. Are we trying to help each other, or confuse one another? I feel like Bill Gates is responding as he laughs and tosses billions of dollars over his head. Come on, people! I'm thinking that jamadakaso thinks that we're talking about multiple operating systems on the same drive; hence the question about the "new" installation affecting the "installed" installation. Basically the aformentioned thread lead me nowhere. Would someone who knows what they're talking about please tell me how I can, in effect, boot the windows xp cd from my hard drive? That's all I'm asking. I want to be able to install windows from my hard drive instead of the CD. Good luck, everyone. And, please, if you have the answer, guide me through it, don't assume I know what you're talking about. Thank you! If this issue has been addressed in another thread (that will help me) please feel free to point me in that direction.