ok, here is my problem. I don't have a cdrom or disk drive on my laptop. I
currently have windows 2000 installed, but it has gotten old, buggy, and
needs formatting. Now i have transfered all the files from my windows xp cd
over to a second partition on my notebook pc. the first partition on the
laptop has windows 2000 on it, and it uses NTFS. The second partition has
the windows xp setup files and is formatted in Fat32. My question is, how
can i get the computer to boot from my D drive (the windows xp setup files),
so i can repartiion and format my C drive and wipe windows 2000 clean?? I
want to simulate booting from a cd, by using a partition instead. Is this
possible? what are my options? TIA

"Ryan Granholm" <ryan9939@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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do you have an option in the bios to boot from network...
that might be a possibility

Ryan Granholm wrote:


The problem is that the D: drive doesn't have an operating system and
doesn't have an OS boot loader, so you can't boot from it. You could run
the XP install program from the D: drive, but I think (someone catch me on
this if I'm wrong) that would simply overwrite/upgrade the existing 2000
installation, stil leaving you with a garbaged installation--further
confused and complicated by being upgraded. A fresh, from-scratch install
of an OS has to be done from some boot medium. Which leads me to ask, how
did the 2000 get installed on the laptop in the first place? This one's a
toughie.

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Gary G. Taylor wrote:
Let's go back a step with all this, just how have they manged to copy
the installation files over without the use of a CD drive???

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