Warned of Win XP ?

[patsym1]

I am not sure if the information I recieved about Win xp is correct or not, from a so called friend. Maybe someone who has XP can enlighten me.

He says: 1. It dose'nt have a startup disk
and that you can't create one.
2. When he tried to do a clean Install
on a formatted blank drive after typing in
Setup, this is what came up "This programme
cannot be run in Dos mode".
Is he winding me up or is it true? I was always under the impression it was only when you had an upgrade you could'nt run Setup. Could it be he has a bootleg copy?


Regards: Patsym1

[ember]

1>You can have a boot disk: put a blank disk in your floppy drive, use Windows Explorer, click on a: (wutever)right click choose Format and choose make boot disk.
2>Make sure he's running from the installation CD-ROM not the drive he wants to install WindowsXP on.

[patsym1]

Unfortunately making a boot disk like you say ember dose'nt give him access to his cd-rom drive?

Regards: Patsym1

[kriskim]

you can make a startup disk, but i prefer using the win98 boot disk. about your 2nd point, i figure your friend used a boot disk, formatted, and then wanted to install. just like when installing win2k from dos/98startup, you can't just run setup.exe, you have to run winnt.exe from the i386 folder.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: kriskim on 2001-11-06 19:51:02 ]</font>

[mem_user]

Or boot from your CD-Rom drive. That works as well as using the winnt.exe file

[Cannop]

You can install using winnt.exe from the i386 folder, but if you dont install smrtdrv.exe it will take hours.
Best way is to boot from cdrom.
Remember we are talking about the win NT kernel not the win 9x kernel.

[cazatom]

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: cazatom on 2001-11-09 03:34:58 ]</font>