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Cant run Setup in DOS mode...
... with windows98 bootable disk or CD) , did it work ? Or just can install from a original OS ? You can install from DOS by running winnt.exe in the i386 directory on the XP CD. Load smartdrv.exe first to speed up the file copy stage. -- Tom Porterfield MS-MVP (DTS) http://members.home.net/tp.porterfield/support/

Setup under DOS
From Boot Loader, choose MS-DOS for your operating system, or restart your computer with a bootable MS-DOS floppy disk inserted. 2. Type the following command line: md c:\$win_nt$.~ls This directory's existence is checked for by the setup disk WINNT.EXE creates. 3. Insert the disk created by WINNT.EXE during setup

Install Windows 2000 next to NT4 - DOS setup
Copying I386 *after* text-based setup will at least double your transfer data and it will not be used during GUI setup at all. My installation procedure copies the I386 to the local disk and runs WINNT.EXE from there. If you copy the I386 down to the hard drive during boot up with DOS then the user must wait for

Cannot run setup in DOS mode?
... becomes B:.....you can also place mscdex.exe into a config.sys/autoexec.bat so that the cdrom boots up thinking it is dos and load the cdrom driver and you can assign Hi, I made an unattended setup (winnt.sif) file and boot it using the CD-rom. I specified "AutoPartition=1" so that the disk is automatically

Boot CD
... ha scritto: questo è il messaggio che mi compare quando cerco di avviare il setup di win xp. Stai avviando l'installazione con winnt32 (o setup.exe) sotto dos il programma da usare per far partire l'installazione è winnt (\i386\winnt.exe) -- Ciaoo Roberto Scassellati Microsoft MVP - Windows - Shell/User.

Weird message from NT 3.51 installer
SETUP.EXE in the root folder is a Windows program. You need to run the WINNT.EXE file located in the I386 folder of the CD. Additionally, obtain a copy of Can I install XP from DOS? I have a newly formatted harddrive and thought I'd give XP a shot, but when I try to run setup.exe it tells me that this file

Help! - Cant remove NTFS Parttition!
EXE then open the directory on your hard drive that contains XP and open \i386 finally run WINNT.EXE -- Harry Ohrn Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/ Associate Is there anyway to instal xp from DOS? I deleted my windows directory and can't figure out how to make the installation. TIA.

Can WindowXP install from DOS comamnd ?
This will let you do a clean install from WINNT.EXE in the C:\I386 folder (WINNT.EXE is the DOS version of the setup program). Obviously blowing away C:\Windows and C:\Program Files is a drastic step that completely destroys the existing [old] system, so be sure that you first backup everything that you need to

Problems with WINNT setup from DOS
Tu as raison, il vaut mieux le faire à l'avance C'est pourquoi je m'efforce d'arriver à appliquer cette solution (236621): Pour enregistrer le dossier "Documents and Settings" à un autre emplacement lors de l'installation, procédez comme suit : Utilisez le commutateur /UNATTEND avec Winnt.exe ou Winnt32.exe et

Undesired multiple copies of XP loaded
Gan Ming Teik mingte...@yahoo.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Create XP setup boot disk at: Home: pro by booting with a win9x/me startup disk with cdrom support and run setup.exe or winnt.exe or winnt32.exe or whatever it is from dos mode. will winxp support run the setup program from dos mode. also,

how to install window 2000 using ms-dos prompt
Note: Windows NT Setup does not always succeed. It is recommended that a Ghost image of the newly copied setup files be created. Saving the Ghost is fairly quick. Saving, and later re-Ghosting, is significantly quicker than run WINNT.EXE /Ba second or third time. V. Reboot/Windows NT Setup (DOS Portion) Windows NT

Clean install of XPpro from dos-boot-disk stops
If you run the XP CD from DOS (eg a Win98 startup floppy) you go to the i386 folder and execute WINNT That loads up the base XP for installation, and you are then in exactly the position you would have been if you booted its CD. If you are running an install from a Windows system, you run the setup.exe in the root

Cannot run setup in DOS mode?
EXE /OX From the CD-ROM's \I386 directory. The Setup program will prompt you to insert three formatted disks to create the boot floppies but won't begin the installation process itself. You can also run the command WINNT.EXE /OX From the CD-ROM's \I386 directory on a Windows 95, Windows 3.11 or DOS machine to

Cant run Setup in DOS mode...
David Adner davidad...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 setup_deployment You need to obtain smartdrv.exe from a DOS/9x system. Dave Mazza wrote: I've got the cab files on my C: drive in a dir called WIN2K. So I go into that dir, then into the I386 dir, and type "Winnt" which begins setup (in DOS).

Clean Install of XP (Dos?)
It does not boot DOS, or have any configuration files on the disk. What the courseware is talking about is a DOS-based network boot disk, which allow you to Run your Winnt.exe commands as necessary, and you'll have Win2K set up in no time. Isn't exactly easy, but once you get it set up, it works fairly well.

How to boot two OS?
If you change the directory from "D:\>" to "D:\I386\>", there is an executable setup file that allows you to set up Windows 2000 from DOS. It is "winnt.exe". I just typed it in and it asks where the setup files are. They are in the "I386" directory. Setup then went completely through the first of the three phases

Win XP Setup won't work in DOS mode?
Steve razorr2...@hotmail.com alt os windows-xp you'll also want to be running smartdrive in dos before running winnt.exe or it will take all night to copy Just After having formated my hard drive, I tried accessing the setup file on the WinXP CD from the DOS prompt and it said that it couldn't be launched from

Install XP from DOS?
You can create setup disks with the NT setup program. I forget the switch, but running the setup program with a particular switch will create you a set of setup disks. 2. If it's an option to you, you can boot from the NT CD-ROM. 3. You CAN start WinNT setup from DOS. But for a truly 'clean' setup, do either 1 or 2

window xp setup from DOS
In order to start setup from DOS you must run winnt.exe rather than setup.exe "Gary Gibbons" <gary7...@attbi.com> wrote in message news:Tf5p9.29081$YR.58518@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net... For some reason XP PRO set up crashes to bsod as it starts to load files after the format function. When I reboot, I get an error

cannot run setup of win2k on dos
/sC:\I386 Once it is done and you do a reboot, change to the C:\I386 dir and run WINNT.EXE [or is it WINNT.COM?] to install WinXP. If you have any more problems, But I just noticed that setup created a MS-RAMDRIVE with some files, SYS COM included... is this OK? How to check what DOS version do I have?