How to install XP/Win 2k from HDD without BIOS CD/Floppy/USB detection?

Question

In other words, How can I install XP (or Win2k) from the main hard disk without CD-Rom or USB or Floppy detection from BIOS?

I have:

- An IDE 2,5" enclosure
- MS-DOS 7.1 (with smartdrv.exe), BartPe, and HP format disk utility
- Windows 2k, Fundamentals (FLP), and win XP CD's.
- Other DOS-based utilities (DOS-to-USB, ntldrusb)

What I've done:

- Formatted the HDD, and then install MS-DOS with CD recognition. After installing it from the old laptop, I inserted the Win XP CD and started winnt.exe installation, but after copying files and rebooting it says the classic message "NTLDR is missing". Even if I replace that file and the ntdetect.com and other possible "corruptible" files nothing happens (I went to ntldrismissing.com too).

- Making the hard drive bootable as a WinPe CD-Rom to install WinFLP (http://www.comphell.cz/?p=10) to HDD, but after first reboot everything shows blank.

- I tried to make two primary partitions, one with 1.5gb and the other with the rest. I found in the internet many tutorials to install XP from a USB drive, So I "simulated" the USB drive by copying all files required for USB to boot into the minor-sized partition, and having the other partition with the XP disk files so I could install it later without replacing any files from USB in the bigger partition after rebooting. But it stills shows blank or the missing ntldr message (depending on the used method).

What I "think" it could be done:

- I've read there's a way in Win98/ME by copying only the .cab files into the disk by making Windows installation automatic at first reboot, but that's only with those OS's. With win 2000 there's a similar way as I heard, but nothing I could known really.

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So, that's it... if there can give me a hand I would be really, really appreciated. And sorry for my poor english.

Thank you!

Answer 1

You've obviously got a CDROM in the PC.



How come you aren't using that to boot from, or is the problem that you don't know how to make the boot order go to the CD first?



Surely, that's a much simpler method of installing Windows XP, instead of the convaluted route you are trying to take?



If you need assistance in changing boot orders, tell us the make/model of PC you are trying to setup, and we might be able to help.

Answer 2

you could initiate the pc utilizing the homestead windows disk. Have the BIOS set to ascertain the CD drives first. it is used to alter or fix the working gadget on the no longer undemanding force. of direction there is not any longer something you're able to do with the computing gadget this variety. or you ought to initiate the computing gadget with a floppy disk created with the homestead windows cd called a startup disk. The you ought to apply the computing gadget with in spite of courses you ought to greater healthy onto the floppy disks, yet no longer homestead windows. This substitute into how homestead computing started 25+ years in the past. Or the subsequent vogue in computing is a stack of memory chips interior that substitute for the no longer undemanding force. they do no longer loose their memory while the flexibility is off, can pass documents speedier than a spinning no longer undemanding force, and use much less power because of the fact they do no longer look to be spinning a motor

Answer 3

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