is this possible?

fat-600

fat-600

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hey there,

i have a laptop that cant boot from cd, say i pull the hard drive out put it in another laptop, install windows without installing the drivers, then put it back into the laptop, will it work? :confused:

cos im at wits end with it
thanks
 
im doing the same thing tonight, gotta disinfect a toshiba laptop that has vista and put back xp... (but xp setup will not see the drive)

would be worth stopping at the 1st reboot and putting the disk into the target system, then continuing... (which is what I plan to try first)

it might not put the boot sector in the same spot on both systems so it may not boot at all...
 
do you have a thumb drive?

If so, there's a guide on the msfn.org forums on how to install XP/Vista from a USB stick that's darn handy!
 
Unfortunately it won't work if the laptops are different.

If the 2 laptops are identical and have the same motherboard chipset then it may work.
 
pingwing said:
It will work! just give xpa bit of time to cope with the new hardware (a few reboots to get everything reinstalled)
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Not always, really depends on the hardware differences and more importantly the actual drivers and good/badly they've been written, worst case is it'll either reboot after the loading Windows screen or it'll BSOD.
 
ahhh ok guys, not to worry its an old one anyway, just thought it whold be nice to put XP on it and give it to my old man to use but i think i might just bin it
taa lads
 
Linux not an option here? If you're just giving it away, I guess they'll only be using it for web, email and a few documents. There's enough guides out there for installing off a USB drive as well.
 
mr.sly said:
Linux not an option here? If you're just giving it away, I guess they'll only be using it for web, email and a few documents. There's enough guides out there for installing off a USB drive as well.
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not really man, the software he needs on the laptop is not compatable with linux, it was only so we could take it racing and use it with the race car.
 
swinnie said:
Try loading the SATA drivers when prompted from a USB Stick, that is probably why XP isn't seeing the drive.
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its not a SATA drive its an old laptop, it just will not boot from CD says checking CD ROM then says no bootable disc found, and has bad install of windows 2000 on there
 
edscdk said:
im doing the same thing tonight, gotta disinfect a toshiba laptop that has vista and put back xp... (but xp setup will not see the drive)

would be worth stopping at the 1st reboot and putting the disk into the target system, then continuing... (which is what I plan to try first)

it might not put the boot sector in the same spot on both systems so it may not boot at all...
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won't work, you need to install the sata driver

easiest way for you to do this..


on a working pc, copy your xp disc to C:\xpcd
download raid slipstreamer from msfn, use this to slipstream all the raid drivers
download nlite, use this to rebuild the disc (can also use it to slipstream SP3 if you want)

done :)




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fat-600, how old is the laptop? i've got a 32mb, pentium 1 that can boot from cd
 
bledd. said:
fat-600, how old is the laptop? i've got a 32mb, pentium 1 that can boot from cd
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not too sure on the age but has stickers saying desingend for windows 2000/windows 98

it goes to read the disc but says no boot CD and carrys on loading the operating system

thanks
 
can it read the disc in windows?

might be a duff drive, or maybe it doesn't like the disc

copy it to C:\xpcd, then re-burn it with different media, at say 4x
 
fat-600 said:
its not a SATA drive its an old laptop, it just will not boot from CD says checking CD ROM then says no bootable disc found, and has bad install of windows 2000 on there
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if that is the case, download gparted and format the drive. then try booting with the XP disk.
 
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