forumlulz Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 Hey all. New to the forums. I apologize if this is not in the right thread and would have no qualms if a mod needed to relocate it.The jist of the story here is that I have a 40GB Laptop HDD enclosed in an external casing that I can connect to my pc via USB. The drive is formatted with NTFS. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1100, which cannot boot to USB and currently does not have a functional CDROM drive. I want to try, just for the heck of it, to install Windows to this 40GB HDD and then slap it into the Inspiron. I know it probably won't boot into Windows or may BSOD but even if that is the case I'd have Windows on an external drive that I could carry around with me.I have an image of the install disc that I mount with Daemon Tools. The drive is G: and the HDD's drive is F:. When the image is mounted and the drive is attached I try to run G:\I386\winnt32.exe /syspart:F: /tempdrive:F: /makelocalsource /norebootbut receive an error from Vista stating that WINNT32 has known compatibility issues and that the version on this computer is newer than that on the disc. I guess I may be overlooking something here but I am not trying to install this OS onto my computers HDD but the HDD in the enclosure. I thought that stating F: is the target in the command line would have let Windows know this...My fiance's laptop has XP on it but I wanted to do this here just in case anything goes wrong. I could just reinstall Vista as it is on it's own patition.Any help or advice here would be appreciated.
jaclaz Posted March 13, 2009 Posted March 13, 2009 I would avoid double posting, if I were you.http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=184082.a Use some common sense. Don't post your question under multiple topics. Think before posting and choose the right topic for you question or answer. When posting, have something to say, not just "My First post!" or "Cool site!!!" We sort of have the idea by now :-).Also, presuming that a forum is dead because noone else answered your post in a 4+6 hours is a bit pessimistic....See the other thread:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131021&hl=jaclaz
forumlulz Posted March 13, 2009 Author Posted March 13, 2009 I would avoid double posting, if I were you.http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=184082.a Use some common sense. Don't post your question under multiple topics. Think before posting and choose the right topic for you question or answer. When posting, have something to say, not just "My First post!" or "Cool site!!!" We sort of have the idea by now :-).Also, presuming that a forum is dead because noone else answered your post in a 4+6 hours is a bit pessimistic....See the other thread:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131021&hl=jaclazYour post didn't help and wasn't on topic. If you could remove it that'd be great. Thanks alot!
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