Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
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From: Ant on 18 Sep 2009 01:31 Hello. I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other burns from other software and drives, etc.). I have to install from an external CD/DVD drive. I researched on Google, and it seems like this a common problem (error message) but none of their suggestions worked. One interesting suggestion was to press shift-F10 keys when the error occurs so I did that to bring up a command prompt/cmd.exe. From here, to do registry edits with regedit but regedit.exe fails to run (not installed yet I think). I also couldn't find the drive (only found the HDD). It seems like during the blue text installer, the drive exists but after rebooting to GUI installer, it forgot the external USB CD/DVD drive? I cannot make a new partition/drive, to install from another drive on the same HDD) because the netbook only has 7 GB excluding its 100 MB system drive (Dell stuff). I had no problems installing Windows 7 though. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. :) -- "Lay a stick of bubble gum on an anthill for instant Siamese Ant Twins." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: BillW50 on 18 Sep 2009 05:53 In news:cNSdnea6obK_hi7XnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com, Ant typed on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:31:07 -0700: > Hello. > > I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron > Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, > etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The > error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried > slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other burns from other > software and drives, etc.). I have to install from an external CD/DVD > drive... Windows XP will not completely install from an USB drive unless it is SP2 or higher. So slipstreaming to at least SP2 would be a good thing to do. Did you try with nLite yet? It is pretty easy, but requires .NET20 to be installed on the machine that you use to make the slipstream. Does this help? As a side note: Windows 2000 requires SP4 to be successfully installed from USB. -- Bill Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195) Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
From: Ant on 18 Sep 2009 09:23 On 9/18/2009 2:53 AM PT, BillW50 typed: >> I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron >> Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, >> etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The >> error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried >> slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other burns from other >> software and drives, etc.). I have to install from an external CD/DVD >> drive... > > Windows XP will not completely install from an USB drive unless it is > SP2 or higher. So slipstreaming to at least SP2 would be a good thing to > do. Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about slipstreamed XP (Pro.) SP2 and SP3 CDs. :) -- "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men." --Mortimer J. Adler /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
From: BillW50 on 18 Sep 2009 09:42 In news:T-KdnYUI4tFZFC7XnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com, Ant typed on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:23:16 -0700: > On 9/18/2009 2:53 AM PT, BillW50 typed: > >>> I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron >>> Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, >>> discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at >>> cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there >>> on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other >>> burns from other software and drives, etc.). I have to install from >>> an external CD/DVD drive... >> >> Windows XP will not completely install from an USB drive unless it is >> SP2 or higher. So slipstreaming to at least SP2 would be a good >> thing to do. > > Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about > slipstreamed XP (Pro.) SP2 and SP3 CDs. :) I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does that mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds like to me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the install, it will fail to see files on the CD after the install resets the USB ports. As you had stated, the file is really there on the CD, is it not? -- Bill Windows 2000 SP4 (5.00.2195) Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
From: Ant on 18 Sep 2009 10:44
On 9/18/2009 6:42 AM PT, BillW50 typed: >>>> I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron >>>> Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, >>>> discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at >>>> cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there >>>> on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other brands, other >>>> burns from other software and drives, etc.). I have to install from >>>> an external CD/DVD drive... >>> >>> Windows XP will not completely install from an USB drive unless it is >>> SP2 or higher. So slipstreaming to at least SP2 would be a good >>> thing to do. >> Please kindly reread what I said in my original post about >> slipstreamed XP (Pro.) SP2 and SP3 CDs. :) > > I read it fine the first time, you said you tried. So what does that > mean? You tried and failed or what? It that is what is sounds like to > me. As without SP2/3 correctly slipstreamed into the install, it will > fail to see files on the CD after the install resets the USB ports. As > you had stated, the file is really there on the CD, is it not? Yes, the \i386\asms and its files are there. I already tried installing them (slipstreamed SP2 and SP3 CDs) on regular desktop PCs without any issues. I wonder if XP is just too old for this netbook since installing Windows 7 had no problems? The same CDs worked fine on another netbook, HP Mini (had to disable its native SATA or something in CMOS according to hp.com's Web site even if I used F6 trick with an external 3.5" disk with SATA drivers). -- "She's got ants in her pants." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: philpi(a)earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant(a)zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |