Installing from a dos boot disk?
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I am trying to get win xp installed freshly and am having troubles i want to use a win98 boot disk to start the install but it says something about speed disk is there a way or can i use the win200 boot disks to do the install? please help me
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Speeddisk speeds up the file coping nothing more.
If its on your floppy run it at the command prompt then install it.
Otherwise find it on a win9x box and copy it to the floppy then run it and install.
If its on your floppy run it at the command prompt then install it.
Otherwise find it on a win9x box and copy it to the floppy then run it and install.
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Yes that is what it is how do i get it onto a boot disk so that i can run it and then install winXP i would really like to completely wipe my harddrives to get the best install i can. When i was not using smartdrive i could not get it installed i had to many problems with the winnt.exe way.
What you can do:
- Create a 98 or ME boot disk.
(You can download some boot disks off some websites).
-Get smartdrive from:
http://xp.xyu.ca/winxp/smartdrv.zip
Unzip it , copy it on the boot disks.
-to start instalation:
If you have different partitions on your disks, (in windows), copy
the i386 dir on a DIFFERENT partition than your boot drive.
Once you have done this, boot with the boot disks, (without cd rom support, faster).
Run smartdrive.
go in the i386 dir --> winnt
enjoy the fast file copying.
Hope this helps.
- Create a 98 or ME boot disk.
(You can download some boot disks off some websites).
-Get smartdrive from:
http://xp.xyu.ca/winxp/smartdrv.zip
Unzip it , copy it on the boot disks.
-to start instalation:
If you have different partitions on your disks, (in windows), copy
the i386 dir on a DIFFERENT partition than your boot drive.
Once you have done this, boot with the boot disks, (without cd rom support, faster).
Run smartdrive.
go in the i386 dir --> winnt
enjoy the fast file copying.
Hope this helps.
with smartdrive file copying = 10 seconds
without smartdrive file copying = 10 minutes
guesstamated figures but smartdrv does speed up DOS installs by a long shot.
without smartdrive file copying = 10 minutes
guesstamated figures but smartdrv does speed up DOS installs by a long shot.
