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  • 09-05-2004 6:46pm
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    jasperok
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    hey folks- i'm trying to install windows on a laptop with no harddrive, so i have the cd copied to a folder on c and am running winnt(setup) from there which is fine- however the problem is that it seems to be grinding to a halt- now wjehen i start to install windows it tells me it would be more advisableto use a boot disc with smartdrive on it (smartdrv) this enables some sort of file caching or something- problem is win98 boot disk does not support smartdrive and if i use the dos6.22 dos bootdisk it supports smartdrive but cannot see my c drive as that version of dos soes not have lba or large hard disk support- any ideas on what to do?
    ta
    J


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    hostyle
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    bootdisk.com


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    Webmonkey
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    I don't get what you mean. Your trying to install windows onto a laptop with no hard drive, do you mean no cd rom drive?


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    KdjaCL
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    Use a WIn98 OEM boot disk and when in DOS get to the I386 folder and type "winnt".

    It does support smartdrive , smartdrive is just a virtual drive it creates using the system memory to store some files.

    Shouldn be a problem really, there may be somfin else up ,is the XP you copied all there (inc hidden files on the cd rom there about 5 in main Dir structure)

    kdjac


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    SantaHoe
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    Yeah you can grab it off a Win98 CD. (d:\win98\smartdrv.exe I think it was).
    It's been a while since I had to do this, but when you boot off your win98 CD, you'll have a ramdrive on A:\ with boot files and a few utils on it.
    What I did before was to copy those boot files to C:\ (either manually or 'sys c:'), and copy over the ramdrive.exe from d:\ (or copy to a floppy or whatever suits you)
    Just run ramdrive.exe after booting off C:\
    Then run winnt as normaly.

    FYI an absence of smartdrive won't prevent windows from installing... it'll just install incredibly slowly.
    smartdrive is a disk caching program that buffers file transfers to speed things up.
    You may have to leave it for a few hours, but if you're in no hurry... works for me anyhoo ;)


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    jasperok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 411 ✭✭jasperok


    lol no hardrive..... i meant cdrom, sorry,
    yes i got it done thanks, i endedup just geetting a dos disk with esssential utilities on it and it flew, well compaared to running it without smartdrv (i'd say i could of been looking at avery very long time without it)
    thanks folks


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