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From: Guus Ellenkamp on 23 Apr 2010 12:35 I have an old system running W2003 and decommissioned it. However, XP refuses to install over it without booting it it seems. Unfortunately the CD is not booting and the floppy drive is also not working properly. Any way to force XP to install by running the installer from within 2003? The computer by itself is running ok and everything is available networked, so I don't/didn't really bother about floppy's (old fashioned anyway now) and CD-ROM's booting. Any advice?
From: John John - MVP on 23 Apr 2010 14:09 Guus Ellenkamp wrote: > I have an old system running W2003 and decommissioned it. However, XP > refuses to install over it without booting it it seems. Unfortunately the CD > is not booting and the floppy drive is also not working properly. Any way to > force XP to install by running the installer from within 2003? The computer > by itself is running ok and everything is available networked, so I > don't/didn't really bother about floppy's (old fashioned anyway now) and > CD-ROM's booting. > > Any advice? Go in the BIOS and set the computer to boot to the CD-ROM before the hard disk... or press the appropriate key to get to the device boot menu when the computer boots. John
From: Phillip Windell on 23 Apr 2010 17:29 If what John says doesn't get you going just replace the CD drive and Floppy drive with one that works. I had a machine do that to me last night. It had a "combo" drive where the CD and Floppy are built in the same unit and it was dead. I had to replace it,...it has to work,...no way around that. I swapped it with another "used" one that worked. I even went out last night and bought an external USB CD Drive for just such a future purpose,...I would have bouhgt a USB external floppy too, but they didn't have any on hand,...But will get one later. -- Phillip Windell The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. ----------------------------------------------------- "Guus Ellenkamp" <Ellenkamp_Guus(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OMCSKMw4KHA.5548(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I have an old system running W2003 and decommissioned it. However, XP >refuses to install over it without booting it it seems. Unfortunately the >CD is not booting and the floppy drive is also not working properly. Any >way to force XP to install by running the installer from within 2003? The >computer by itself is running ok and everything is available networked, so >I don't/didn't really bother about floppy's (old fashioned anyway now) and >CD-ROM's booting. > > Any advice? >
From: Guus Ellenkamp on 23 Apr 2010 21:14 Hi John, Thanks for your reply. I tried that, but there seems to be something wrong with the CD drive and the floppy drive. No software type solution like ovverriding the 'version check'? Guus "John John - MVP" <audetweld(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:uEEWOAx4KHA.4520(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Guus Ellenkamp wrote: >> I have an old system running W2003 and decommissioned it. However, XP >> refuses to install over it without booting it it seems. Unfortunately the >> CD is not booting and the floppy drive is also not working properly. Any >> way to force XP to install by running the installer from within 2003? The >> computer by itself is running ok and everything is available networked, >> so I don't/didn't really bother about floppy's (old fashioned anyway now) >> and CD-ROM's booting. >> >> Any advice? > > Go in the BIOS and set the computer to boot to the CD-ROM before the hard > disk... or press the appropriate key to get to the device boot menu when > the computer boots. > > John
From: Phillip Windell on 26 Apr 2010 10:14 Just replace the bad drive. -- Phillip Windell The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. -----------------------------------------------------
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