Re: unable to boot into xp

Glenn Holliday wrote:

John John wrote:

When you did the in-place upgrade quite possibly you needed to press F6 at the very beginning of the setup routine to have Windows load the SATA or Mass Storage controller drivers. You MUST supply the drivers on floppy diskette, the setup program will not accept the drivers from any other media source.


What's the proper procedure for computers that have no floppy drive?

If the computer can boot to USB devices you might be able to use a USB floppy drive, if not you will have to fit a floppy diskette drive to the computer even if only temporarily. That failing you will have to slipstream/sysprep an image with the controller drivers included in the deployment.

John
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