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  1. will try later on today. thanks for your suggestions, agonified!
  2. I was working from a slipstreamed windows xp, with sp2. It didn't make any difference. I am wondering, when my computer boots and looks for a bootable cd and doesn't find one and then moves on to the hard drives, why doesn't it find a bootable hard drive? I've copied my windows cd to my C: drive (which, to be quite honest, I didn't think would work, but I thought I'd try it anyway,) but it just bypasses that and moves on to the two windows partitions I've already installed, (one on c: and one on f:). I guess what I've been wondering is how can I tell my computer to look for, not a bootable cd, but a bootable hd? There's no problem when my computer looks for a bootable cd-rom, but when it comes to looking for a bootable anything-else, there's nothing there. I think I copied myself there a little bit. oops! I don't have the energy to consolidate. going to bed now... <---that's me snoring! (by the way, i'm still waiting on someone to tell my why I can't install windows from my hard drive!!!)
  3. The thing is, everything is coming from the same copy of windows. How can my "Installed version," be newer than the version I'm trying to install when they both come from the same disc? I guess what I am wondering is, what happens when my pc boots? It looks for a bootable windows cd-rom and if it doesn't find one it goes on to the hard drives. It's at that point that I need it to look for a "bootable image," but it just goes on to one of my two windows installations without pause. I've copied my windows xp cd to my c: drive, hoping that it would attempt to boot from that, but to no avail. Truth be told, I've tried quite a few things, such as that, which I really didn't think would work, but which I thought I'd try anyway. How do I get my computer to look for a "windows cd" on a hard drive which already contains previous installations of windows? Just thought I'd ask!
  4. Thanks, agonified. I tried what you said. Here's what I got... must go to bed now...hope for answers in the morning...
  5. When I'm at work and logged on to my home computer via remote desktop I always right click on the taskbar, choose Task Manager, choose Shut Down, and then choose Restart. However, I think I have to agree that there are other remote programs that are more secure. If you're going to utilize microsoft's remote desktop you'd better have a secure password.
  6. 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.
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