[shineon134]

I am trying to get win xp installed freshly and am having troubles i want to use a win98 boot disk to start the install but it says something about speed disk is there a way or can i use the win200 boot disks to do the install? please help me

[Seldzar]

Speeddisk speeds up the file coping nothing more.

If its on your floppy run it at the command prompt then install it.

Otherwise find it on a win9x box and copy it to the floppy then run it and install.

[maxg]

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[shineon134]

Yes that is what it is how do i get it onto a boot disk so that i can run it and then install winXP i would really like to completely wipe my harddrives to get the best install i can. When i was not using smartdrive i could not get it installed i had to many problems with the winnt.exe way.

[TeRRiblE]

What you can do:

- Create a 98 or ME boot disk.
(You can download some boot disks off some websites).

-Get smartdrive from:
http://xp.xyu.ca/winxp/smartdrv.zip
Unzip it , copy it on the boot disks.

-to start instalation:

If you have different partitions on your disks, (in windows), copy
the i386 dir on a DIFFERENT partition than your boot drive.
Once you have done this, boot with the boot disks, (without cd rom support, faster).
Run smartdrive.

go in the i386 dir --> winnt
enjoy the fast file copying.

Hope this helps.

[ThC 129]

with smartdrive file copying = 10 seconds
without smartdrive file copying = 10 minutes

guesstamated figures but smartdrv does speed up DOS installs by a long shot.