Hi!
This is my first post here, and I hope you will be able to help me
Okay, some background. I bought a PC that comes with Vista Home Premium, but I want to go back to XP until Vista is more mature. Since my only hard disk drive is SATA and I have no flopyy drive, I had to “slipstream” iastor.sys and it’s friends into the CD image. That was painful, but after several attemps, I got it to work.
The problem is : Now that the setup detects my hard drive, it ask me to choose the partition I want to install XP on but my keyboard is not working.
The CD is XP Home Edition SP1A US and I believe my USB ports are 2.0. I have no PS/2 connector (I wish I had…) and my keyboard -is- working pre-setup (aka: the BIOS)
Possible solutions I can think of :
– If I use XP Pro instead, would it work? (Can I swap my XP Home’s I386 folder with some XP Pro’s I386 folder?)
– If I integrate SP2 too, would it work”
– Can I use WINNT.SYS (the “other” unattended file?) to ask the setup to do a completely unattended install that overwrite C: (3rd partition according to Windows Setup) ?
Will any of these work? Anyone have a better idea?
Thanks a lot!
