Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:58:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100 One item that David mentioned that you didn't: boot partition must be marked active. Normally this would be done by the install process but you may need to do it manually using DOS FDISK or some other partitioning utility. Did you format C: drive as FAT32 or NTFS? If FAT32 then you can boot DOS and see if the correct files are on the drive. 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 SNIP 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. __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[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.
Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:28:10 + (GMT/BST) From: Alan Middleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100 Is the partition on the librettos hard disk active ? IF not, on the libretto, boot off a floppy, run fdisk.exe (you may need to copy it to floppy from where ever you created that) and mark the partition active. Remove floppy and boot off the hard disk - should continue with setup if not start the process again from the floppy etc as before... Hope that helps, Alan. 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. - End Forwarded Message -
Re: [LIB] Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100
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.
