Ian
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Need to do a reinstall - no CD or floppy in the laptop, no access to external drives.
Go the drive out of it in my computer, got the data off, formatted it.
Need to get it bootable though so I can copy the XP install on and boot to the hard drive and run setup.
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ssj_kakarot
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so you have the harddrive out of the laptop in your own pc with access to a cd drive or did i read that wrong.
if so its a bit of a lazy way about but just unplug your other harddrives from your pc so only the one is connected and install xp to that then stick it back in the other laptop.
did that before and it worked fine.
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Andrew
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Use this mate, works a treat. I've a USB CD/DVD if you need to borrow one.
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Andrew
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
so you have the harddrive out of the laptop in your own pc with access to a cd drive or did i read that wrong.
if so its a bit of a lazy way about but just unplug your other harddrives from your pc so only the one is connected and install xp to that then stick it back in the other laptop.
did that before and it worked fine.
this, but what you need to do is as soon as it gets to this screen
unplug it from your pc and stick it back in the laptop, otherwise it will install drivers for hardware that is installed on your PC then it will blue screen when you plug it back into the laptop.
if you whip it out as soon as it gets to that stage it should continue where it left off when you put it back in the laptop
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Planty02
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Use the winnt32.exe command from the i386 folder of the windows CD. Do it through command prompt and use the these parameters:
/makelocalsource /syspart:<<Drive letter>> /tempdrive:<<drive letter>>
Then put the drive back in the laptop once its finished 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782342(WS.10).aspx
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ssj_kakarot
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
so you have the harddrive out of the laptop in your own pc with access to a cd drive or did i read that wrong.
if so its a bit of a lazy way about but just unplug your other harddrives from your pc so only the one is connected and install xp to that then stick it back in the other laptop.
did that before and it worked fine.
this, but what you need to do is as soon as it gets to this screen
unplug it from your pc and stick it back in the laptop, otherwise it will install drivers for hardware that is installed on your PC then it will blue screen when you plug it back into the laptop.
if you whip it out as soon as it gets to that stage it should continue where it left off when you put it back in the laptop
yeah lol forgot to mention the unplugging part when the install files have been copied 
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Ian
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Just tried that approach and got 'A disk read error occurred' when I put it in the laptop.
How do you stop it mid-install? Just pull the cable? 
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Ian
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But its fine back in the surrogate PC
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John
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Pull it out the first time it restarts after copying the files.
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ssj_kakarot
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actually am not sure if that is going to work been a while since i did it, it might ask for the windows cd during the proccess after the initial restart in which case it still no use to you.
could try and run the full install all the way through then swap it to the laptop, im almost certain i have done it like that before.
ive also done it when i upgraded most of the companants in an old pc (mobo board, graphics, sound ect) and it just asked to install new drivers
worth a shot if nothing else.
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pow
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That means that the drivers loaded on the computer are not compatible with the SATA control drivers on the laptop. TBH it's not an ideal solution anyway as it loads many kernel level drivers before it even gets to the GUI install
SSj is right it carries on reading off the CD all the way through the installation...
The only real failsafe way to install Windows XP is from a CD really.
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Ian
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Got a drive for it now but I can't alter the boot sequence because there's a password on the bios.
Tried switching after the reboot as per Johns advice but the error message is the same.
Drive is fine when back in the other PC and also via a USB caddy to my main one.
Also tried another 2.5" drive from another laptop and it sees that drive but blue screens fairly soon after.
Its also IDE, not SATA.
I can now install from the CD except that I can't boot to it. If I could get a C: prompt having copied i386 on to the drive that might work.
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pow
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Same thing really, the IDE controller drivers are different 
Get shot of the MBR (DBAN it - google it!) on the main hard drive so i'll skip the HDD as a boot device if you really can't get shot of the BIOS password, but, take the CMOS battery out (under the memory hatch/keyboard? What laptop is it?) to get rid of the password. Sometimes there are two solder blods somewhere easily accessible to get shot of the CMOS settings.
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ssj_kakarot
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isnt there a jumper switch or something on the motherboard to reset the bios password?
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