Re: Windows 2000 Dos install

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:10:42 +1000

"Jay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:198901c4a9ec$dfad2960$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> i am trying to install windows 2000 onto a laptop which
> doesn't have a CD ROM drive. When i got the laptop it had
> Windows XP installed and 2 partitions. I managed to
> network it and copy the I386 directory to the secondary
> partition with all its relevant drivers, now im may of
> messed up here but what i did next was boot the latop up
> from a windows 98 boot disk deleted the primary partition
> holding XP OS, i then enabled smart drive and ran the
> winnt.exe from the I386 directory on the secondary
> partition. Everthing worked from there, it copied the
> files etc but when it needs to reboot to start the setup
> nothing happens, all i get is 'Missing operating system'.
>
> I tried running Fdisk from the 98 startup disk creating a
> a primary dos partition and making it active but this
> doesn't work neither all i get get is 'Missing operating
> system'.
>
> Can someone help, any suggestion would be appreciated

Since you installed WinXP when booting from a Win98 boot
disk, your primary partition must be FAT32. You can now
do this:
1. Boot the machine with your Win98 boot disk.
2. Run fdisk.exe and make double sure that the WinXP
    partition is set to "active".
3. Get a copy of bootpart.exe from
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
    and run this command:
    bootpart winnt boot:c:

If this does not help, do this:
1. Boot the machine with your Win98 boot disk.
2. Run fdisk.exe and make double sure that the WinXP
    partition is set to "active".
3. Type this command:
     sys c:
4. Reboot the machine. It will now boot into DOS7.
5. Run this command:
    bootpart winnt boot:c:

If this does not help then you need to examine your WinXP
installation. You can do this with a WinXP boot disk:
- Format a floppy disk on some other WinXP/2000 PC.
  Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your WinXP CD
  to A:\
  ntldr
  ntdetect.com
- Copy the hidden file c:\boot.ini to a:\
- Boot the machine with this disk.

If it works then your installation is OK (but the boot
environment is not). It it does not work then you
have a problem with your WinXP installation.

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