[BM]Crusher Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 OK Will this work?1) Put the laptop hard drive in my desktop machine2) Backup my boot.ini file3) Format the Laptop drive as NTFS4) Run XP Home setup from the CD5) Tick the box "copy installation files to hard drive"6) After it has copied installation files, quit setup7) Copy the modified Boot.ini, plus the C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS and C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT folders to the laptop hard drive8) Replace my boot.ini with the original one9) Put the laptop drive back in the laptop and boot it up into setupWill that work? Is there something else I have to do to the laptop hard drive to make it bootable?Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravashaak Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 If I told you one way or the other, I'd just be guessing. So, I really can't answer your question without attempting your method myself. However, you may have another alternative.If your laptop's NIC and BIOS support booting from the network, you could potentially perform a network boot and then install XP from a network install point. There would be some work involved in getting everything working, of course. However, it might be a viable alternative.Good luck! - Ravashaak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted July 30, 2004 Author Share Posted July 30, 2004 I think it does have network boot options, but how does that work?It will look to the lan for a boot source, but how do i provide one? it would probably be a viable alternative if it was easy and i knew a bit about it already... if it's too complicated, then.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel_98a Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 i would actually try that but i need to get a bigger harddrive for my laptop first, but then it might not be able to run xp, might have to try win98. i don't see why it won't work as long as the connections are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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