I would, use another boot disk, such as the SystemRescueCD to boot the system and find the windows install files. They'll be in a folder somwhere called "i386". Once you have that folder, copy that to another computer running Windows XP or so. Put it into another folder. Download nLite, and run nLite using that folder as the "Project" folder. If there's any hardware you know you need, nLite can slipstream drivers onto the disk, service packs, too.
Once that's done, nLite will burn a Windows install CD for you, based on the files you recovered from the machine. At this point, you'll have a custom Windows XP install CD for that computer. It will still require the product key and is, in every way, a complete and valid XP install. On Apr 13, 2011 4:37 PM, "Andrew Webber" <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to do a complete reinstall of Win XP on a desktop machine, > unfortunately the only media we have are Windows Vista (must have been > bought with the Win XP upgrade pre-installed). I think the desktop is > a Dell. > > The only media I can find handy are a set of Win XP recovery disks for > my T41p. Can I use those? Of course I'd use the desktop's product key > from the sticker on the case, but is there likely anything in the T41 > disks that would prevent this? > > Thanks! > > -- > Andrew mailto:[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
