jznomoney Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Is there a way to say make a spare IDE hard disk boot like the windows xp cd to install windows to another hard drive?Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 short answer...no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 You can make a MSDOS hard disk sytstem which is run winnt (don't forget to load smartdrv). I don't see any restrictionsedit: winnt instead winnt32 of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 (edited) Yes. It must boot to DOS prompt. Copy I386 contents to it.In AUTOEXEC.BAT run WINNT.EXE in I386 directory to begin installation.Older hard drives are particularly suitable for this, they don't need to be over 1Gb. Edited March 5, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 (edited) short answer...noThat should really be:WRONG answer...noOf course it is possible, though it is much more difficult than simply having DOS and launching WINNT.EXE.(NOT WINNT32.EXE, for which you will have to install a minimal Windows 9x at least)Here is a hint of one way:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384the other way is using a bootloader like GRUB/Syslinux or IELDR/Avlgomgr to boot from a .ISO on the hard disk:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=8955&hl=http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15994&hl=jaclaz Edited March 5, 2006 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jznomoney Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 ISOEmu doesnt load the xp cd image it comes up with an error. I know about the dos way but I want the drive I install windows xp to to be considered drive C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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