instal xpcd from hard drive

[roel]

Hi, i've got 2 ntfs hard drives. My c: which is formatted and my d: which contains my xpcd installation files. So i've been trying to install winxp from d: using ntfsdos pro (this is a dos program to read/write ntfs partitions)

the problem is however that when i reboot (and start this program and smartdrv.exe) and then open my d:/xpcd/i386/winnt.exe i get the message that i have insufficient memory. This strikes me as a bit odd because i have a pretty good pc (512 MB DDR).

Does anyone have a sollution for this, because i've been looking for so long to install windows this way . Thx

[MHz]

This could be a limitation of ntfsdos which creates this error.

You could try making a bartpe cd, and see if this will do what you want to do.

[roel]

thx, but i really want to do this using ntfsdos, because i can't install the xpcd from windows...

[kenedy]

NtfsDos uses some kind of memory manager (don't remember which one).

Windows setup uses another. They are not compatible.

Run into that problem when I wanted to create bootable CD with antivirus that could access NTFS partitions.

Possible solution - create small FAT32 partition for that purpose.