Hey all,
I've managed to lay my grubby mits on a very small laptop from work. It has no OS on it and no CD/DVD driver either. It does however have a few USB ports.
Now, I've followed a few of the many sites detailing how to install XP from a USB key but I keep getting stuck.
I've got a USB key that boots the latop to a DOS prompt and it is large enough to hold the bootup files and the i386 xp folder on.
The USB key is formatted as FAT32 and the HDD in the laptop is in 2 partions. Ones a 3GB recovery partion (it's from the old TOSH laptop i had) and the other is a empty 75GB NTFS drive.
When I boot, I get to a (C:\) DOS prompt which holds all the USB data. If I try to access A:\ it tells me the 'drive isn't ready, abort, ignore or fail'. I've also tried all the different drive letters it could be but no joy.
Why can't I access the NTFS dirve?? I'd like to copy the i386 folder to it and then run winnt.exe to start the xp installation.
Can anyone help???
Cheers in advance!
I've managed to lay my grubby mits on a very small laptop from work. It has no OS on it and no CD/DVD driver either. It does however have a few USB ports.
Now, I've followed a few of the many sites detailing how to install XP from a USB key but I keep getting stuck.
I've got a USB key that boots the latop to a DOS prompt and it is large enough to hold the bootup files and the i386 xp folder on.
The USB key is formatted as FAT32 and the HDD in the laptop is in 2 partions. Ones a 3GB recovery partion (it's from the old TOSH laptop i had) and the other is a empty 75GB NTFS drive.
When I boot, I get to a (C:\) DOS prompt which holds all the USB data. If I try to access A:\ it tells me the 'drive isn't ready, abort, ignore or fail'. I've also tried all the different drive letters it could be but no joy.
Why can't I access the NTFS dirve?? I'd like to copy the i386 folder to it and then run winnt.exe to start the xp installation.
Can anyone help???
Cheers in advance!
