HeliosVortex Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 is it possible to run windows setup directly from the hard drive?i have two hard drives, and when I try to boot from the hard drive containing windows installation files, i get an "operating system not found" message.please advise,thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryath Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I think you need to get a win98 boot disk, boot into cmd prompt, the run the setup.exe of the setup from cmd line. www.bootdisk.com for a win98 boot disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redxii Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) The file you run at the DOS prompt is i386\winnt.exe. Note: not winnt32.exe. Setup.exe can't be run from DOS either. Edited August 31, 2006 by redxii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Assuming you also want it done unattended (since you ask this in the UA forum), you'll need additional switches. e.g.WINNT /s:Z:\i386 /u:Z:\unattend.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliosVortex Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 its an nLite-ed installation, with fullunattended option selected. do i still need those switches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazin Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Yes, you still need those switches. Also, you need to adapt paths (by Takeshi) to your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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