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From: drtigerlilly on 4 Oct 2006 22:07

John Beurket wrote:
> drtigerlilly(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > I have been trying to install Windows XP on my Toshiba Portege M200
> > Tablet, the tablet does not have a built in CDROM Drive, and instead
> > uses external solutions, one of which is the Targus Noteworthy NWDVD04
> > CD/DVD ROM Drive.
> > This drive connect to the pc via a PCMCIA cable.
> >
> > I have tried to install the Microsoft Windows XP to the tablet, via
> > booting to the cdrom drive w/ the XP CD, it starts and begins loading
> > drivers but just as it is about to start the Windows Installation the
> > machine bluescreens & gives the following message:
> >
> > A problem had been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
> > damage to your computer.
> > If this is the first time you've seen this stop error restart your
> > computer. if this screen
> > appears again
> > Follow these steps:
> > Check for viruses on your computer.
> > Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check
> > your hard drive to make
> > sure that it is properly congfigured and terminated. Run Chkdsk /F to
> > check for hard drive
> > corruption, and then restart yout computer.
> >
> > Technical Information:
> > *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7c78524, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
> >
> > I followed the instructions and checked the hard drive, there are no
> > problems or issues with the hard drive. While searching the internet, i
> > came across a toshiba forum, and a user suggested that the issue is:
> >
> > "The BIOS supports booting from certain PC Card based CD Roms. The
> > support is quite basic and provides only the possibility to boot. At
> > some point the operating system has to take over the support of the
> > device from the BIOS ... At this point a driver is required regardless
> > of the operating system (DOS, Win XP, Linux....whatever). If the driver
> > is available everything is sweet. No driver - no more access to the CD
> > Rom where the rest of the boot files and system files reside.
> > So from that point the connection is cut."
> >
> > I have DOS & Windows 98/NT/XP Drivers for the Drive, so i am curious to
> > find out, if it is possible to add these missing drivers to the Windows
> > XP Installation, any help you can provide, will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> This is not what you asked for, but you may be able to install by
> copying the XP CD to a Fat32 partition on your hard drive, and then
> from Windows 98 (or a 98 boot disk) run I386\WINNT.EXE from wherever you
> copied the CD
>
> John B

I made an fat32 partiiton to hold the i386 installation but once i
start the installation from the fat32 partition it cannot find the ntfs
partition.

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