Slamman Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Most of you know, I report on my install findings, and I even argued about them with a local PC salesman, thought we get along, he has his own views as well, installing OSes for his job and all. I've found, if you read this posted link... The reply states a borrowed XP install disc will not work with the XP COA on the OP's eMachine, this is incorrect to assume, as I bought a stand alone copy not associated with any computer maker (XP Home Edition), then installed using the COAs off a Compaq, Dell, etc... Worked fine for me, I can only assume some cases won't The thing I haven't tried is what is suggested in the link... http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic24109.html What I'm currently doing is using my Inpiron 1150 to format a drive that was wiped then move that drive to the Netbook like Dell LS so it had a large formatted XP OS to use, It formatted to NTFS using the slow format option (what exactly will Quick do on a new, wiped drive??) Then it loaded drivers to the disc so it boots off the disc rather then a Windows disc in the drive locally. When it shortly requests a reboot on the Dell Inspiron, I turned it off and swapped to the other machine, It starts to boot but crashes to BSOD. (hense, the thread title) Since at present, the Dell LS will not "see" an external drive to boot from, I'm rather stuck here. I need to get XP versus the old Windows ME or 98 on the machine to sell it. Xp logo starts to come up but I get the Windows has shut down to protect the computer error message. It can't point you to what that error might be, but since it was started loading and formatting on the 1150, the LS machine is noticibly older hardware, and even though it IS Dell, there's something causing the BSOD, I saw the above thread and wondered how to adapt it to my problem, perhaps? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434620-windows-xp-bs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star-Lord Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 When it shortly requests a reboot on the Dell Inspiron, I turned it off and swapped to the other machine, It starts to boot but crashes to BSOD. (hense, the thread title) This is your problem. You have to let it finish the formatting process after the format is completed it will reboot and write the MBR. After the MBR is written to the entry point of the HDD it will be ready for the OS. If you shut it down before hand hence the BSOD or general protection fault error.What you are actually doing is deleting the required tempoary files stored in memory - needed after reboot. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434620-windows-xp-bs/?do=findComment&comment=1059671252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 (edited) ....I didn't want it determining the makeup of the Inspiron when it's going into a Dell LS. Just enough info to say "Dell motherboard, fine with that!" Ok, currently, I have had put the drive back in to the Inspiron but it loaded all the drivers, went through the "name", computer name", "set the time and time zone" screens. Loaded right up to the Windows screen lacking the drivers, Basically a usable drive without the proper Dell drivers. Thing is, I wanted it initiating on another computer, so I needed to know at what stage after formatting do you manually halt the install? I'm really not sure why the LS won't boot up from the external drive, but I assume it was to do with the drive not formatted to NTFS or FAT at that point, I don't think it had an active partition. Edited December 6, 2009 by Slamman Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434620-windows-xp-bs/?do=findComment&comment=1059671356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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