Re: reinstall of XP



In news:7Dk4f.995$Hs.493@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Rich Barry <rbarryNot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> replied with a ;-)
> Bob, this should be of some help
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
> "bob engler" <engler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eDVoIPg0FHA.2348@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> A friend has an IBM model 6892-n9u that was running XP Pro SP2 that
>> he was having trouble with so he decided to reinstall XP. He has 1
>> IDE 13 Gig HD and 2 CDs and 512 RAM. He reformatted the HD and tried
>> to reload from his XP PRO CD. The system won't reboot from the CD and
>> in the BIOS setup there is no option to boot from CD. I can boot the
>> system
>> from a WIN98 boot disk but that is as far as I get. The hard disk
>> now has nothing on it. How can I get the operating system from the
>> CD loaded onto the disk? He wants the disk to have 1 NTFS partition.
>>
>> Thanks.......

To Rich,
Thanks for the reference to my web page, It should cover his needs.

To Bob, in case you miss the link to my BIOS page, check it for how to
access the computer BIOS.
Accessing BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
xpnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm



.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: How to use a corrupted hard drive as an external hard drive
    ... Do I just attach it and boot the computer like normal? ... Thank you in advance for any guidance you can give me as I am technically challenged and attaching all the cables correctly is a challenge. ... should see the identity string in the BIOS screen. ... as they exist on the disk). ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: Grub hangs - two hard drives and a CD
    ... > What you wrote is all based on a wrong assumption that grub numbers drives ... > that the BIOS will call to boot an OS. ... The Bios calls to read disk require the register DL to ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: maximum hard drive size in Latitude cpi
    ... > actually written a boot loader they won't be so adamant about how "Windows ... > of the disk, and while it is being read off of the disk the machine is ... > limitatoins of that BIOS. ... After that the kernel takes over. ...
    (comp.sys.laptops)
  • Re: Big-disk woes
    ... And shrink that / partition as well -- it should be as small as ... > of a bad disk. ... I was thinking bios all this time. ... grub only needs BIOS to find the boot dir to load the ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: writing to a partition
    ... At boot time the BIOS is the only way to interact with your ... After that I would study how to access the disk. ... adding functionality pace by pace. ... Your suggestion about reading boot sectors has some merit. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)

Quantcast