Re: Reinstall OS

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:25:20 -0000

"Ray" <NoSpam-Ray282828@Yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message
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> My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does not
> have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
> floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and
> installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
> cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come
> back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.". I did boot up the
> pc on Windows ME that created in Windows XP. What is the meaning of
> requirement of Microsoft Windows? Your advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,

Ray,

The setup.exe at the root of the CD is a Windows program. If you want to
setup Windows XP after booting to DOS then you need to run the winnt.exe
program from within the i386 folder on the CD ROM 

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"Ray" <NoSpam-Ray282828@Yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message 
news:udIVcUa9EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS.  The pc does not 
> have any floppy and cd-rom drives.  I booted up the pc using  a bootable 
> floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and 
> installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb 
> cd-rom drive.  Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come 
> back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.".  I did boot up the 
> pc on Windows ME that created in Windows XP.  What is the meaning of 
> requirement of Microsoft Windows?  Your advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
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