Re: Reinstall OS
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 01/09/05
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:31:34 +0000
Ray wrote:
>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.".
You do not install XP normally in that way, but by booting the CD.
Setup is for cases where you run the CD from an existing system in
order to upgrade
However you can go to the CD and do a
CD \i386
Winnt
which should load the normal XP install
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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