DavidNewbould 0 Posted March 27, 2001 I've recently euh acquired a **COUGH COUGH** copy of WinXP beta 2 Personal. Once its burned onto a CD, what further *stuff* do i have to do before i can install it. ------------------ In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields at Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom. Share this post Link to post
Greg S Trouw 0 Posted March 27, 2001 Well if it isn't a bootable image, you should make the boot floppies, insert them into the floppy and begin install. I would recommend backing up your data also and what can not be reinstalled, just in case for whatever reason the beta doesn't work out on your computer, and also....because personally I would do a fresh install. If you format the drive for that, you got to be able to recover. Share this post Link to post
DavidNewbould 0 Posted March 27, 2001 Well i hope its bootable, took my floppy out I mean what cracks do i need to use to get past the activation etc ? ------------------ In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields at Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom. Share this post Link to post
Greg S Trouw 0 Posted March 27, 2001 Practically every file I have downloaded from Microsoft's servers in the past are not bootable. There is one exception to this (well haven't downloaded it, but it's there). You see, with MSDN shipments this year, they stopped shipping bootable CD Roms. This years included non-bootable winNT 4 and win2k CDs (and I don't think the Whistler beta 1 CDs they shipped us are bootable eother). People complained, so there is a bootable win2k ISO image they uploaded..... Your download, if it's consistent with about 99.9% of them I've seen on their servers is *not* bootable. Share this post Link to post
Joker 0 Posted March 27, 2001 Every build and beta i have got on WinXP has been bootable even beta 2, that i have has been bootable so i'm sure they will be for u. Even all of win2k's beta's have been bootable. ------------------ "In order to be free to learn" "We must be free to dream" Share this post Link to post
ThC 129 0 Posted March 27, 2001 all of the beta's since Win2k RTM have been released as bootable ISO images. Then if they arent there is still the bootable SP1 CD guide you can follow minus the SP1 install parts. If you mean by 'other' cracks then go to www.etplanet.com or #msbeta on efnet. Share this post Link to post
DavidNewbould 0 Posted March 28, 2001 I extracted the ISO to a directory using ISOBuster, installed it, and fücking HELL it's cool ------------------ In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields at Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom. Share this post Link to post
