Make A Slipstreamed Disk From An OEM Reinstallation CD
Jan 6, 2009
Wife�s notebook needs its annual redo and I don�t feel like spending hours downloading updates/patches/fixes for XP/office/etc. Just wondering if anyone�s made a S.S XP install disk from their original factory reinstallation disks. If it's do-able with nlite.I suppose if the windows files are .cabbed or zipped, I�d have to extract them to a folder on the HD, along with all the other XP files.....then point nlite to the folder.
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Jul 19, 2010
I'm trying to use a slip-streamed copy of win xp pro to install xp home onto a new hard drive for a friend while using his xp home product key. I thought that xp home would extract the files unique to xp home from the xp pro install because I used the xp home product key. The reason I'm using the xp pro slip-stream is because my friend bought the computer with xp home pre-installed and didn't get a install copy on the o.s.
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I can't make a good MS-DOS startup disk (for BIOS flashing) from XP SP2.I select the "Make an MS-DOS startup disk" from the Format dialog.Sometimes it gives up without a warning (i.e. the progress bar resets itself and the "Start" button goes active again). Sometimes it completes with a success message. However the disks never boot. I get the following messages from the BIOS (abbreviated a bit!): Looking for boot record on floppy... OK I've tried with a least 7 different floppy disks, all with the same result. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get it to work? I've also tried to make a MS-DOS boot disk on a Windows 2000 machine by downloading some freeware, but this does not work. I think the floppy drive is OK because I can boot from a Linux floppy disk (memtest86).
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what i did:
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2. used win98 fdisk to set partitions
3. plugged the hd in my other comp as a slave and used a pirate copy of xp pro to install on the drive
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We had an Acer Netbook Aspire One crash a couple of weeks ago. We have tried to restore and a varety of other things.The Netbook DOES NOT have a CD drive nor do we have an external CD drive.We have a 1Gig USB stick, We ended up by having to order 2 discs from Acer - 1 to fix the partition and one to fix Windows.How do we make the stick bootable? Would prefer it in simple terms please.
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My hard disk is going to fail.I have collected data over 3 years.The first one created successfully but, i don't know how to copy the data from hard disk to pen or flash drive. The second one also created successfully but, windows not able to boot using this disk. It boots from hard disk as usual.
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I have this idea however I don't know if you can do it. What i want to do is to make my Hard Disk Drive as my My Music folder: Whenever you click or go into My Music, it will act as a shortcut and head straight to the Hard Disk Drive. The reason for this is so I have a Hard Disk Drive full of music while my original HDD has all the other stuff. Also My Music is a special windows folder so I would like to keep that if possible when doing this.
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Oct 5, 2008
It's got to the time where I need to do this and I have done it numerous times in the past but this time I am having problems.
Last week bought two new 500gb harddrives and replaced my existing 300gb slave. Formatted and partitioned this and all was okay.
Today I have removed the 300gb master and installed, formatted and partitioned the new 500gb hd with PM8.
I have set the primary partition as active and all the others are logical which is asthe old hd was partitioned.
I have been geting a disk boot failure error on trying to boot from the CDROM with the XP installation disk. Having originaly had the bios set incorrectly I have now rechecked it and ensured the boot order is set to CDROM, HD-0 and the floppy.
I have ensured that the primary hd has been detected, detection is set to to Auto and Access Mode to LBA following the Seagate instructions. I have now also disconnected the secondary drive to exclude that from the picture until I get into the primary drive.
I have also reset the jumper on the new primary to Master having disconnected the secondary drive.
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Earlier tonight I switched the hard drives between my computer and my mothers computer, because (ironically) her's was better for gaming. After a quick reinstall of XP Home Edition, my computer was good to go. But setting hers up proved to be a bit more of a challenge.I loaded up the hard drive, booted up with the XP Pro Edition (it's what she uses) and the installation was going great. At about 9 minutes left, I get the error message saying something like: "This software has not passed the Windows Logo Test and will not be installed" or something to that nature. I clicked OK, it popped up again, I clicked OK again. This time, the installation finished up and strangely everything started up. I logged into one of the accounts, only to find that no icons had loaded and everything was going horribly slow. I couldn't right click on the desktop. I couldn't click on the start button. The only thing I was able to do was click on the bar at the bottom, which does me no good at all anyway. Something was using up the computers resources like mad, and strangely the LAN light on the DSL modem was going berserk.
I'm thinking maybe a complete reinstall will do the trick. The only problem is that when trying to do a fresh install on the C: it popped up with a warning message saying "Installing an OS onto a partitioned drive that already contains an OS may result in software not running properly." I backed away from this and re-tried the repair installation. To my dismay, the error came back up again. I'm calling it quits for now and hope to have a reply tomorrow. I really need to get this fixed soon As a side note, I used the 'Repair Installation' choice on my Hard Drive, and everything works right now. For some reason XP Pro is a bit picky. How do I get passed this error to the point where the computer is useable again?
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i have my dell laptop hooked to it with but cannot navigate at all in trying to link the two puters together.
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I have recently had to format my Dell Dimension 2400 desktop due to the fact it was full of viruses
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Dec 4, 2008
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I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and afterwards a folder, with subfolders, is not possible to open or even delete. It contained quite a lot of data and now it says that it contains 0 files.I have tried programs like deleteatboot and unlock, but its still there. I can drag and drop files into the folder but then that file just dissapear and the folder still says 0 files and 0 bytes.I can also move the folder.
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