Installing from a dos boot disk?

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...




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#68288 - 07/04/01 07:03 AM Installing from a dos boot disk?
shineon134 Offline
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Registered: 06/28/01
Posts: 28
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

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#68343 - 07/04/01 06:31 PM Re: Installing from a dos boot disk?
Seldzar Offline
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Registered: 09/09/99
Posts: 468
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.

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#68441 - 07/05/01 04:16 AM Re: Installing from a dos boot disk?
maxg Offline
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Registered: 09/27/00
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#68447 - 07/05/01 06:36 AM Re: Installing from a dos boot disk?
shineon134 Offline
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Registered: 06/28/01
Posts: 28
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.

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#68467 - 07/05/01 01:21 PM Re: Installing from a dos boot disk?
TeRRiblE Offline
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Registered: 05/10/00
Posts: 46
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.

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#68499 - 07/05/01 06:50 PM Re: Installing from a dos boot disk?
ThC 129 Offline
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Registered: 12/06/99
Posts: 1578
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.

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