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Installing Win2000 on slim laptop

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by tmys21

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Hi,

I have a sharp pc-um10 laptop which is very slim and comes with external floppy and cd-rom drive. It is pre-installed with WinME. I would like to have a clean install on the laptop using Window 2000. However it seems to be impossible to be done. Booting using the cd would give errors that it could not detect the USB cd-rom. I tried to install using dos command prompt, but still fails. I need to clean install windows 2000 because winME installation seems to disturb the running of ProEngineer. I really hope you could help me solve this problem. I had posted the same question before and suggestions were given, unfortunately it didnt work. Hope this time I will get a workable answer.

Thanks

Yusoff

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by mike jones

You cannot do this unless you have DOS drivers for the USB CD Drive which is doubtfull. DOS doesn't normally support USB.

I would suggest trying to borrow a parallel port CD Drive for the install which you should be able to obtain DOS drivers.

by isrick

this will work if you have a big enough hard drive. copy the I386 folder off of the win2000 cd to your hard drive, at this point use the flopys you can make with the cd to boot, run the winnt.exe that is in the I386 folder you put on the hard drive to install win2000

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