Priprema HDD za instalaciju winXP

Imaš li koji windows na tom laptopu? Ako da skini i ubaci u boot manager od windowsa, kad ti se bootaju windowsi izabereš taj boot manager i pod njim imaš opciju za boot s USB-a.

1. First, you need to copy your Windows XP Setup CD contents to your harddrive. NOTE! I recommend saving the xp install files/folders to a seperate partition than where your going to install xp to (ie. have setup files at d:\winxp\ and then install xp to c:\ drive)

2. Now, you will want to boot your pc with the windows 98 se bootdisk with smartdrv.exe on the floppy (increases data transfer speed by ten-fold in dos!). You do not need to boot with CD support since we’re installing XP from the files on your harddrive (in my example, D:\winxp\)

3. Once you get to the command prompt, you can format the partition where you are installing xp if you want (ie in my example, the c:\ ) by typing: format driveletter: replace driveletter with the drive (ie format c: in my example). And go through the prompts.

4. Once that finishes, change drives to the drive with XP on it.
In my example: D: then enter.
 THen: CD WINXP (change directory to winxp folder) and enter

Now i will want to enable smartdrv, just type: smartdrv and then type it again. THe second time you type it and hit enter it will show the status of the drives and cache’ing.

5. Now, change directory to the i386 folder, by typing: cd i386 (this folder’s full path in my example would be D:\winxp\i386\).
Then type winnt to start the installation.

Just install XP like normal

Ako možda pomogne, pogledaj malo po internetu ima dosta tutorijala.

-bez Floppya, CD-DVDa, USB-boota... (pa nemaš ništa..) ima li mrežnu?

-Jedino rješenje nabava nečeg od navedenog (najkorisniji je ext.USB.DVD), PCMCIA-USB kontroler i sl.

-Pošto je star notebook, sigurno je (P)ATA-HDD 2.5", za spojiti na PC ti treba adapter-kabel 2.5-3.5 IDE. Ako nabaviš kabel (ili USB-ATA-SATA adapter) tad možeš pripremiti instalaciju (iskopirati i386 na disk), međutim... mora bit bootabilan, tj moraš ga formatirati ''format x: /s'' npr iz Win98 ili bootati XP u CMD jer pod XPom nema switcha /s. ili na tom računalu bootati s CD-a ili Floppyja pa formatirati..

-ili započeti instalaciju na tom PCu (samo s 2.5"HDDom) i kod prvog restarta ugasiš i preseliš u notebook. Instalacija bi trebala nastaviti kad upališ notebook. (to je vjerojatno rješenje).

-može i preko mreže, ali tad moraš imati server s pripremljenom instalacijom i mrežna mora imati mogućnost boota.

Za stari notebook se ne isplati ništa ulagati (osim adapter-kabla, cca 20kn), .. bilo je i ext.USB.CD za nekih 60kn.. neka akcija, više nema. Ext.Floppy je ugl iznad 200kn itd. Optimalnije je kupti USB-HDD adapter (model za PATA-3.2/2.5 i SATA) cca 150kn

Poželjno je imati USB (PCMCIA USB kontroler v.2.0) jer sve ostalo može preko USBa, npr wlan, miš, CD, ext.HDD itd.