Installing from a dos boot disk?

[shineon134 0]

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 0]

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 0]

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[shineon134 0]

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 0]

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 0]

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.