Re: Installing English version of Windows XP on a Japanese compute
- From: databaseben <databaseben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:45:01 -0700
at the desktop you can use run and open the cmd window and run setup.exe that
is located on the cd drive. but you may as well try to give up as it might
be cheaper getting a compatiable harddrive and install win onto it..... if
you are committed with installing win onto the current harddrive and if you
have those drivers mentioned earlier, eg rad, etc., windows will let you
install them before proceeding with the install. at the beginning of the
install, windows will pause and you can insert the disks that came with your
motherboard or for the harddisk. but it sounds like you maybe don't have
them.....
"R.B.Bailey" wrote:
How do you do a runn>cmd? I've tried the F12 function when I started up the.
computer, then booted from the CD..but it still couldn't find the disk.
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R.B.
"databaseben" wrote:
kanji? well the xp has been a standard o.s. for a while and the sp2 is the
latest revision that is avail for free from the windows site. it might be
cheaper to buy a hard drve for 40 bucks or so and install your windows on to
it. the downloads all of those updates from windows update site. i doubt
that buying the winxp sp2 version will have any of those special drivers
required to run that particular harddrive as mentioned earlier..... have you
tried doing a runn>cmd and then set up from that cd drive. supposedly the
windows of different languages are incompatiable. but maybe if you can
initiate an install, you will have the option the set the language to us
english....
"R.B.Bailey" wrote:
I tried to set it up from the desktop, but I recieved a message (written in
kanji). My version of Windows is 3 years old; do you think that because it
doesn't include service pack 2, that it won't install? Because on my laptop,
the age of it's Japanese Windows and my Windows are the same, and both
contain no service pack 2.
--
R.B.
"databaseben" wrote:
oh yeh, i almost forgot. but when you run windows setup from the desktop,
there is also a selection that analyzes the computer to see if its windows xp
ready. this can identify what hardware will pose a problem for the
repair/reinstallation.
"Bruce Chambers" wrote:
databaseben wrote:
have you tried running windows setup from the desktop...?
And just how, pray tell, would that help the OP install drivers that
clearly don't come on the WinXP CD?
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Bruce Chambers
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