On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
I have a really old machine. Its' bios is so stupid that it does not offer
booting from a CDROM! It offers only 2 option:
HardDrive then Diskette
Diskette then HardDrive
I tried to upgrade its' W2Kpro system to XP. This failed when the boot disk
ran out of space! Well, duh! Hard drive was scsi on a 2940UW.
OK, replaced the drive with a 9.13GB that is formatted ntfs w/1 primary
partition.
I've studied for 2 days and now have an XP boot diskette constructed. It
points to the proper disk (scsi id=0), but then fails because the drive is
blank at the moment.
It will NOT point post-bios to the pata CDROM to do the SETUP.EXE and install
XP. I suspect the boot.ini file is the problem, but I do not know how to
correct it to point at the CDROM.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or repair to my boot.ini file? The current
boot.ini reads:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional"
Thankyou,
Duncan
Have you tried this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994
I think it ends up making 3 floppies, but gets you to the startup point.
Christopher Fisk
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