Hey Drake.......

[lechumbl]

Hey Drake,

Twice you have sent me ICQ and both times I responded, but you did not get back to me.
Want to try again?

Take care.......

[Drake]

Argg, two questions:

1) If I boot off the XP disc it will not install XP by going to winnt.exe and

2) Is there any tax that goes along with online shops like directron and newegg? Is the price and shipping all you pay?

[lechumbl]

Hi Bud,

I do not understand the first question.

The second question answer is only shipping, no tax.

Let me know what you mean on the first question, and I will answer.

Take care........

[Drake]

When I boot off of a Win98SE boot floppy, I can't see the CD drives, so I can't fix WinXP from there, and if I boot off of the XP disc and go into repair mode, I can't fix it from there. If you install over a previous install, you have to reinstall all of your other programs, right? That's what I'm trying to avoid at the moment.

[lechumbl]

Hi Drake,

When you boot off of the boot disk, you should have an option to install CD drivers.
Once the CD drivers are installed, you can see the CD drive(s).
Then go to the drive that has the XP CD in it and change the directory to i386 and do the winnt I told you about.

If you reinstall over the existing copy, you do not have to reinstall the progs, since you are not changing the pointers.

Let me know how it goes.

Take care.........

[Farabomb]

I think there is a option to repair the install when you try to re-install.

It's not the recovery console. It's after that. It re-installes XP and keeps everything the way it was.

Dang too slow again for Lee

[4.6POWER]

lee... I was also unable to install directly from the i386 directory by launching winnt executable. It comes to an authentication / licensing error. The only method I have found with the disk is to upgrade off 98 or millenieum. Works great though :D

[lechumbl]

Hi Joe,

Tha's interesting.
I have installed that way hundreds of times at work and home.
In fact, that is one of the tests that I have to perform at work for migration.
In fact, did it today.

Anywhooooooooooo, I am ready for bed, so will ponder this tomorrow.

Take care.......

[Alex]

My xp cd is not a bootable one, and I never could get it to install using a 98 boot disk. But, if you go to www.bootdisk.com you can download the (6x floppy!) winXP boot disk, which I use every time these days.
Nice and simple!

Alex;)

PS: Lots of other goodness there too!

[Drake]

Would it be possible to burn those files to disk and go from there? Seems a lot simpler than working with so many floppies.

Speaking of, I found a set of Windows 3.1 floppies :p makes me feel young.

[Kill-Switch]

WinXP CD is bootable, always has been ... unless you have a less then legal copy :eek:

Anyway, it's already been said but, all you need to do is boot the XP disc and select "Repaia previous installation" (or something like that) and everything will be fine afterwards.

[Alex]

Damn, busted again!:rolleyes:

LOL

Alex