Install XP from HD

[Quasibobo]

Hi,

This is my problem: the CD-rom of my laptop isn't working so for re-installing XP, I've coppied the XP-installation-files by LAN to de HD.
So I thought: Format c: >> insert bootdisk >> cd d:\xp >> setup.exe
(the bootdisk was from win98SE). Unfortunately I got the errormessage: "This program cannot be run in DOS mode".

I went to the MS site to download a program that would create 6 bootdisks for XP, but while running the second disk another Error Message appeared: Ntkrnlmp.exe Could Not Be Loaded Error Code 7

Now I'm stuck.... how can I get the d:\xp\setup.exe working?

T.I.A.

 

[tractorboy]

Do you have access to a desk top pc, go to a pc store. NO stop thinking about Best buy. Get a notebook HD to 40 pin cable adapter ( $9.00).
Take you HD out of the the notebook and make it the SECONDARY HD in the pc.
>>>>when you connect the notebook HD to the adapter, if you do it backwards, you will fry your HD, there should be pin 1 marks on it SO CHECK<<<<< Format the notebook hd with NTFS and copy over the I386 folder from the XP CD, this is just in case xp needs these latter. Then make the notebook the PRIMARY. Put in your XP cd and boot from the cd, Ther ARE 2 parts of the install , the text part and the GUI part. What you are going to do is the text part in the desktop and the GUI back in your notebook. So install xp onto the notebook, go through all the way up to where xp finds your partitio...DO NOT FORMAT..just let xp install all the drivers, then when the pc reboots and comes back to run the GUI ( graphical user interface ) ..you do this in the notebook this part XP means business and starts looking for your system drivers. If xp asks to see the xp cd again, politely show xp the I386 folder.
^^^^^good luck^^^^