I copied the I386 folder to my hard drive from the installation cd. I am
trying to run the installation from my hard drive. I do not have a floppy
drive. How can I boot from my cd-rom drive and run the install from my hard
drive?

Why don't you want to install from the CD?

BTW, this is a Media Center support group, is that what you are trying to
install?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"lsts95" <lsts95@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I copied the I386 folder to my hard drive from the installation cd. I am
> trying to run the installation from my hard drive. I do not have a floppy
> drive. How can I boot from my cd-rom drive and run the install from my
> hard
> drive?

Running the install from the hard drive is preferable. Not only is it
faster, but it leaves the I386 folder on the hard drive "registered"
with Windows (whatever version, Windows 95 to Windows XP MCE) as the
"installation source", so that if Windows needs a driver file or access
to the installation files for a later system change, it will get them
automatically from the I386 folder on the hard drive instead of asking
you for the CD.

In answer to the original question, if he has no floppy, he will have to
make up a bootable CD. Or he can boot from the "command console", a
bootable DOS-like system (that recognizes NTFS partitions) on the CD
(without actually installing Windows from the CD).


Jaime wrote:

> Why don't you want to install from the CD?
>
> BTW, this is a Media Center support group, is that what you are trying to
> install?

Many times when you install a clean copy of Windows, you need to format (and
possibly partition) the hard drive, which would wipe out anything you had
copied. I find it just as easy to simply copy the I386 directory afterward
and change the "Setup" location in the registry.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida


"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Running the install from the hard drive is preferable. Not only is it
> faster, but it leaves the I386 folder on the hard drive "registered" with
> Windows (whatever version, Windows 95 to Windows XP MCE) as the
> "installation source", so that if Windows needs a driver file or access to
> the installation files for a later system change, it will get them
> automatically from the I386 folder on the hard drive instead of asking you
> for the CD.
>
> In answer to the original question, if he has no floppy, he will have to
> make up a bootable CD. Or he can boot from the "command console", a
> bootable DOS-like system (that recognizes NTFS partitions) on the CD
> (without actually installing Windows from the CD).
>
>
> Jaime wrote:
>
>> Why don't you want to install from the CD?
>>
>> BTW, this is a Media Center support group, is that what you are trying to
>> install?

Barry was on the money w/ the reason. I partitioned and formatted the hard
drive w/ Partition magic, then downloaded I386 to the drive.
What is the "command consol" and how do I access and use it?
What exactly do I need to edit in the registry to chang the the "setup"
location.

I am new to Newsgroups and did not realize I was in Media Center Edition
Group. I thank you for the help!

"Jaime" wrote:

> Many times when you install a clean copy of Windows, you need to format (and
> possibly partition) the hard drive, which would wipe out anything you had
> copied. I find it just as easy to simply copy the I386 directory afterward
> and change the "Setup" location in the registry.
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida
>
>
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4374B624.7010008@neo.rr.com...
> > Running the install from the hard drive is preferable. Not only is it
> > faster, but it leaves the I386 folder on the hard drive "registered" with
> > Windows (whatever version, Windows 95 to Windows XP MCE) as the
> > "installation source", so that if Windows needs a driver file or access to
> > the installation files for a later system change, it will get them
> > automatically from the I386 folder on the hard drive instead of asking you
> > for the CD.
> >
> > In answer to the original question, if he has no floppy, he will have to
> > make up a bootable CD. Or he can boot from the "command console", a
> > bootable DOS-like system (that recognizes NTFS partitions) on the CD
> > (without actually installing Windows from the CD).
> >
> >
> > Jaime wrote:
> >
> >> Why don't you want to install from the CD?
> >>
> >> BTW, this is a Media Center support group, is that what you are trying to
> >> install?
>
>
>

The command console is an environment similar to MS-DOS but that fully
supports NTFS. It's available on bootable XP CDs (I think it's on many
2000 CDs also), you will see it as an option if you boot from an XP CD.
It's primary purpose is for maintanence and/or file recovery when
Windows won't start.

Command Console can also be installed permanently onto the hard drive of
a computer for diagnostic use, it then becomes effectively an additional
(2nd, 3rd) operating system in what then becomes (if it wasn't already)
a "multi-boot" envirnoment. [Note, this is the only instance in which
Microsoft directly supports a 3-OS multi-boot environment, where one of
the 3 OS' is the Command Console, because it is not installed into a
separate partition but rather simply into a folder in either a 9X or
NT/2K/XP partition.]

Instructions for installation:

1. Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Click Start, and then click Run.
3. In the Open box, type d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons where d is the
drive letter for the CD-ROM drive.
4. A Windows Setup Dialog Box appears. The Windows Setup Dialog Box
describes the Recovery Console option. To confirm the installation,
click Yes.
5. Restart the computer. The next time that you start your computer,
"Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" appears on the startup menu.

Note, you may not be able to install command console if the CD is XP
"gold" or XP SP1, but the version of XP on the hard drive is SP2. It
may detect a "version conflict" and may refuse to install (for no really
good reason).




lsts95 wrote:

> Barry was on the money w/ the reason. I partitioned and formatted the hard
> drive w/ Partition magic, then downloaded I386 to the drive.
> What is the "command consol" and how do I access and use it?
> What exactly do I need to edit in the registry to chang the the "setup"
> location.
>
> I am new to Newsgroups and did not realize I was in Media Center Edition
> Group. I thank you for the help!
>
> "Jaime" wrote:
>
>
>>Many times when you install a clean copy of Windows, you need to format (and
>>possibly partition) the hard drive, which would wipe out anything you had
>>copied. I find it just as easy to simply copy the I386 directory afterward
>>and change the "Setup" location in the registry.
>>--
>>James
>>Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida
>>
>>
>>"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
>>news:4374B624.7010008@neo.rr.com...
>>
>>>Running the install from the hard drive is preferable. Not only is it
>>>faster, but it leaves the I386 folder on the hard drive "registered" with
>>>Windows (whatever version, Windows 95 to Windows XP MCE) as the
>>>"installation source", so that if Windows needs a driver file or access to
>>>the installation files for a later system change, it will get them
>>>automatically from the I386 folder on the hard drive instead of asking you
>>>for the CD.
>>>
>>>In answer to the original question, if he has no floppy, he will have to
>>>make up a bootable CD. Or he can boot from the "command console", a
>>>bootable DOS-like system (that recognizes NTFS partitions) on the CD
>>>(without actually installing Windows from the CD).
>>>
>>>
>>>Jaime wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Why don't you want to install from the CD?
>>>>
>>>>BTW, this is a Media Center support group, is that what you are trying to
>>>>install?
>>
>>
>>