Here’s my situation. I am working on a Sony laptop for a customer. Hard drive went bad. This unit has no internal drives other than the HD. He brought me the external CDROM that plugs into the PCMCIA port. Problem is, thats bad too. Now I have no way to boot this thing. Note: Booting from USB is NOT an option, so please don’t suggest it.
What I need to do is find a way to get XP loaded on his HD. I have attempted to pull his HD, format it with FAT32, create a folder called XP and copied the XP CD to it. Then I booted from a DOS floppy, “sys’d” thge HD and put it back in the laptop.
Then I booted from the HD to DOS. So far so good. Then I CD to the XP\i386 folder and run WINNT.EXE and I’m on my way. Problem is, after the restart, not boot! I’m thinking the issue is the fact that the DOS partition is on the same partition as the XP source folder as well as where I’m attempting to install XP.
At this point, I was thinking along the lines of creating 2 partitions; one small partition for the source files and one big one to install XP on. However, Im not sure how the set them up as far as drive letters, etc. I would appreciate any input regarding this dilemma!
Brian
