Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 21:05:16 -0500 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100
Did you load EZ BIOS? I think you need this so that XP can see the entire drive. What tool did you use to partition the hard drive? Alan is right, you need to make the 8 gig partion the active partition. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen KG4SPA Montverde, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <libretto@basiclink.com> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:50 PM Subject: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100 > Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:49:42 -0600 > From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100 > > Hello again. I posted a question about installing Win XP on my L100 > yesterday. Sorry to be back again so soon, but I've run into more > problems using a different approach. > > What I did this time is: > 1. I installed the Libretto's hard drive in my desktop as the > secondary drive, formatted as FAT32 and partitioned as 8GB > primary-100MB free-10GB primary, copied the Win XP install CD to a > directory on the hard drive, then re-installed the hard drive in the > Libretto, booted from a Win 98 boot floppy, ran "smartdrv.exe", went to > the i386 directory, and ran "winnt.exe". > 2. This started the Setup process in DOS, and after various files were > copied over, I came to a screen that said the DOS part of Setup was > completed and instructing me to remove any floppy disk and press > "Enter" to restart the computer and continue Setup. > 3. I did so, and the Libretto wouldn't reboot. I got a message saying > "invalid system disk" and instructing me to replace the disk and hit > "Enter". > 4. When I insert the Win 98 boot floppy (the only "system disk" I > could think of), Setup doesn't continue, instead the Libretto simply > boots from the boot floppy to the "a:\" prompt. I've tried setting the > BIOS to boot from HDD first or from FDD first, it doesn't make a > difference. > > I've also tried installing Win 2K and Win 98 in the same manner, and I > run into exactly the same problem: after the first part of the setup is > complete, and the Libretto needs to be restarted to complete the setup > process, it won't restart - it always goes to the "invalid system disk" > message. I've also tried this process with two different hard drives, > with the same problem. > > I am really quite stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions? It sort > of seems like the Libretto isn't recognizing the c:\ drive as a "system > drive". My feeling is this isn't a Libretto-specific problem, it is a > generic computer problem. But I have no idea what it is. > > >
