Win XP Setup Boot Disk

johnny · 01-16-2008, 01:29 AM

How do I go about this. Installing Win XP via Setup boot disk. I know I insert the floppy and let it read it and then keep switching floppies unitl all olf them are read but is there any more that I have to do. I know that its then going to allow me to install from CD. But what else is there to it, that I am missing?

PC eye · 01-16-2008, 01:44 AM

For installing XP with a set of seup floppies you first have to prepare those and boot from the first of the set when you are not able to set the optical drive as the boot device. That will see cd rom drivers loaded as part os the initial setup process. If you can boot from the XP disk(full install version) the installer will run on it's own.

johnny · 01-16-2008, 02:32 AM

I know that much. I know what it will start to prepare for setup via the floppies then you put the cd in the optical drive and can finish the install from there but is there anything else i need to do after i get to the setup screen or to get to the setup screen?

PC eye · 01-16-2008, 11:02 PM

A brief guide on using the floppy install including screen shots can be seen at http://www.networkcert.net/xp/install.htm#fromfloppy

The instructions simply point out that once you have been prompted for each floppy and the initial process is loaded into ram you then press the enter setup now option to indicate which optical drive the disk is in and see the installer started up there. The XP installer can then be used for creating a new primary if that hasn't already been done with a drive partitioning tool.

The MS page for downloading the files for creating the 6 floppies needed is seen at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 or at http://www.download.com/Windows-XP-H...-10728296.html

johnny · 01-17-2008, 04:15 AM

I put the floppy in my desktop just to try it out, and when it boots up it checks for cd boot and find nothing then it checks for floppy boot and finds the first floppy. It says ok and then it says "Disk I/O Error". What does this error mean?
And thanks for that first site, its one of the best responses.

StrangleHold · 01-17-2008, 01:51 PM

By mistake you didnt put the wrong 1st floppy in?

johnny · 01-17-2008, 02:49 PM

Thats what I thought happened at first but I checked the disks, and tried 3 sepearte times. Then I recreated the start-up disk and same problem.

PC eye · 01-18-2008, 01:42 AM

When tried here with all 4 floppies and even a separate XP boot floppy I kept running into all kinds of snags. The problem is trying to energize the XP installer like you would if booting from the cd. With the older Fat based versions dos was a common tool while once you get into 2000 and XP it can get fussy at times.

Are you trying this out on an old flat top antique?

where you can't set the cd rom option as first in the boot order? On that old of a system you may not have enough to even see XP installed if less then 128mb of memory and pre P II cpu. The floppy method can be annoying as the method being used. Far easier when you can boot from the installation disk.

johnny · 01-18-2008, 06:38 PM

The computer is was buit in summer of 2001. When it was built it was intentionally designed for Windows 2000. It was a custom built machine, that my cousins brother in-law built for her. What happened was the version on 2000 was one of the first copies released and it was unstable, so they downgraded to 98 SE.
About a year ago her husband and best friend were playing around with the computer and they wanted to put 1gb of ram in it, which the max is 512, as well as install a second hard drive and they somehow fried the hard. We couldnt figure out the problem, like I didnt think of it since windows would only boot up in safe mode. So he took it to this tech friend of his brothers and he installed a new hdd and windows 98.
When the computer was built it was, and still is runnign a PIII, and it had 128 MB RAM which we then installed 256 X 2 = 512MB.

StrangleHold · 01-18-2008, 07:45 PM

Since its a PIII its got to have somewhere in the bios to set your boot order to the cd-rom. Or at the bottom of the bios screen say something like Press --- Key to boot to CD

01-16-2008, 01:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	Win XP Setup Boot Disk How do I go about this. Installing Win XP via Setup boot disk. I know I insert the floppy and let it read it and then keep switching floppies unitl all olf them are read but is there any more that I have to do. I know that its then going to allow me to install from CD. But what else is there to it, that I am missing? __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-16-2008, 01:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	For installing XP with a set of seup floppies you first have to prepare those and boot from the first of the set when you are not able to set the optical drive as the boot device. That will see cd rom drivers loaded as part os the initial setup process. If you can boot from the XP disk(full install version) the installer will run on it's own. __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

01-16-2008, 02:32 AM	#3 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	I know that much. I know what it will start to prepare for setup via the floppies then you put the cd in the optical drive and can finish the install from there but is there anything else i need to do after i get to the setup screen or to get to the setup screen? __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-16-2008, 11:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	A brief guide on using the floppy install including screen shots can be seen at http://www.networkcert.net/xp/install.htm#fromfloppy The instructions simply point out that once you have been prompted for each floppy and the initial process is loaded into ram you then press the enter setup now option to indicate which optical drive the disk is in and see the installer started up there. The XP installer can then be used for creating a new primary if that hasn't already been done with a drive partitioning tool. The MS page for downloading the files for creating the 6 floppies needed is seen at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 or at http://www.download.com/Windows-XP-H...-10728296.html __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

01-17-2008, 04:15 AM	#5 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	I put the floppy in my desktop just to try it out, and when it boots up it checks for cd boot and find nothing then it checks for floppy boot and finds the first floppy. It says ok and then it says "Disk I/O Error". What does this error mean? And thanks for that first site, its one of the best responses. __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-17-2008, 01:51 PM	#6 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,513	By mistake you didnt put the wrong 1st floppy in? __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another.

01-17-2008, 02:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	Thats what I thought happened at first but I checked the disks, and tried 3 sepearte times. Then I recreated the start-up disk and same problem. __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-18-2008, 01:42 AM	#8 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	When tried here with all 4 floppies and even a separate XP boot floppy I kept running into all kinds of snags. The problem is trying to energize the XP installer like you would if booting from the cd. With the older Fat based versions dos was a common tool while once you get into 2000 and XP it can get fussy at times. Are you trying this out on an old flat top antique? where you can't set the cd rom option as first in the boot order? On that old of a system you may not have enough to even see XP installed if less then 128mb of memory and pre P II cpu. The floppy method can be annoying as the method being used. Far easier when you can boot from the installation disk. __________________ Turning the Tongue into a Device Controller http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sma...ory?id=5647175 Is EBay going out of the Auction Business? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5626840&page=1

01-18-2008, 06:38 PM	#9 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	The computer is was buit in summer of 2001. When it was built it was intentionally designed for Windows 2000. It was a custom built machine, that my cousins brother in-law built for her. What happened was the version on 2000 was one of the first copies released and it was unstable, so they downgraded to 98 SE. About a year ago her husband and best friend were playing around with the computer and they wanted to put 1gb of ram in it, which the max is 512, as well as install a second hard drive and they somehow fried the hard. We couldnt figure out the problem, like I didnt think of it since windows would only boot up in safe mode. So he took it to this tech friend of his brothers and he installed a new hdd and windows 98. When the computer was built it was, and still is runnign a PIII, and it had 128 MB RAM which we then installed 256 X 2 = 512MB. __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-18-2008, 07:45 PM	#10 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,513	Since its a PIII its got to have somewhere in the bios to set your boot order to the cd-rom. Or at the bottom of the bios screen say something like Press --- Key to boot to CD __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another.

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