Problems Installing Xp Through A Hd

[mookyking]

I just got in a used Fujitsu ST3500 tablet pc in at work, and needed to install XP SP1 to deploy it, the old operating system, win2k tablet was wiped previously. The problem is that this machine doesn't come with a cd-rom or a floppy, and doesn't boot from usb. I couldn't figure out how to install it. I was able to partition and format the drive as a dos bootable drive and copied the CD to the drive, by removing the HD and connecting it to a combination of a laptop, and a usb enclosure. The second partition is formatted as ntfs.

I ran winnt.exe from the I386 folder, which it goes into the setup and copies the setup files, and then hangs. After rebooting, it picks up where it left off, and errors out looking for the eula, I edited the txtsetup file to repoint the sourcepath key to the eula.txt. After trying again, it began searching for previous versions of windows, which it couldn't find any and errored out.

Would copying a win2k CD, or the windows folder to the first or second partition get me by this error? Or the other thing I was thinking was that, is it possible to extract the microsoft corporation.img file to the first partition to essentially turn it into a bootable CD? And if that would even make a difference... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[KAndle]

I could be wrong but the Tablet version of Windows is different from the main stream windows. You need a tablet os first and then XP SP2 should do something for you. Only as an upgrade as far as I know.