copying xp files onto hard drive help please

jasonrat

hi its me again worknig all day to get this blimming laptop with xp. and now in the process of installing xp but it wont let me. how do i copy xp files onto the hard drive and boot from there? is it possible? thx

albertross_2

I thought you were installing 98..

Why won't it let you?

jasonrat

lol
basically a colleage has gave me a laptop with 98 on it he wants xp on it i have been trying all day to install win xp but it wont let me it says files are corrupt or it finishes when its trying to format the drive. etc etc
and wont go any further. in the windows set up it says i can copy files onto hard drive and try it that way but dont know how to do it that way

the reason i was installing 98 before was because i wiped everything off the hard drive
thx

i have installed xp on,my comp no problem with formatting and starting from scratch but this ibm think pad is proving to be a nightmare. anychance it might be the motherboard and wont allow xp full stop??????????/

Ganyam

If the disc is sp2, try installing an xp disc without sp2 and work from there.

albertross_2

What model of ibm is it, what size is the hard disk?

It's a strange one, did you manage to fdisk and format the drive with the dos boot disk?

Are you selecting ntfs or fat32 when installing XP.

jasonrat

albertross wrote:

What model of ibm is it, what size is the hard disk?

It's a strange one, did you manage to fdisk and format the drive with the dos boot disk?

Are you selecting ntfs or fat32 when installing XP.

ibm think pad ;pentium iii i managed to fdisk and format dont know much more setup goes to quickly
i used fat 32 only used one partition though. is this enough?

albertross_2

you could try ntfs.. one is enough, but if you created 2, you could copy the XP CD onto the d: drive.

Donnie

You haven't told us the specific model number.....

Channces are that it may perform very poorly with XP. That's if you can install it at all.
I had to settle for Windows ME on an IBM Thinkpad I obtained for my niece.

Works nicely now. Have installed Bluetooth and a USB 2.0 card.

No reported stability problems thus far.