Formatting on Laptop with no CD drive

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Sir Rugmuncher

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Hey everyone,

I'm having a bit of an issue installing win XP on my laptop. The laptop has a CD drive but it is not working. I took out the drive and placed it into another laptop (i.e. another laptop now as my HD in it). I installed XP on that laptop (in essence onto my HD) without any problems, and XP loads fine. As soon as I put back my HD into my laptop, XP is detected but I get a BSOD. I also saw (when loading in safe mode) that it was halting a mup.sys driver file.

After some searching online (for the mup.sys and BSOD) I could not come out with a proper solution. I understand that most likely it is hardware configuration/compatibaility issue as the BSOD shows a STOP error of 0x0000007B and (0xC0000034). From the geekstogo website I understand that it is a

Disks or storage controllers that are failing, defective, or improperly configured.

Anyone know how to fix this error, knowing that my laptop does not have a functioning CD rom drive.

Can anyone suggest a better way of installing XP for people who have similar issues? (I tried using an external disk but ran into boot record issues as the external was not the "main" drive).

Note: Laptop does not have boot from USB option

Thanks in advance for your help

Cheers :)

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Can't you use a USB Storage key and create a bootable Windows XP installer on it and boot from that (that's what they do for netbooks without optical drives). Windows XP is picky about hardware it's on too. While Windows 7 is able to swap HDDs between systems (generally) no problem, Windows XP will crash if it's not run on the same system it's installed to.

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Magnolia Man

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Maybe this program will help you..

A Bootable USB

I know you said your computer doesn't have a boot from USB option but maybe you can use this to put the Windows ISO files or Installation files on the USB drive and install them from there.

I personally have never used it but from the reviews of it i've seen on other sites it seems to work pretty good

good luck

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We just had a thread about installing XP with pxe. Pretty simple setup with Tftpd32, etc.

This thread might help you go that route

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/868520-installing-xp-via-network-boot/

As to installing xp onto the hard drive while it in another machine -- your going to want to do a sysprep type install, and then move the hard drive back before it finishes.

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Sir Rugmuncher

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We just had a thread about installing XP with pxe. Pretty simple setup with Tftpd32, etc.

This thread might help you go that route

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/868520-installing-xp-via-network-boot/

As to installing xp onto the hard drive while it in another machine -- your going to want to do a sysprep type install, and then move the hard drive back before it finishes.

I tried pxe and loaded the bart drive but had network issues as in couldn't load the network drivers for my nic. Couldn't properly identify what nic I've got (it's intel) tried some drivers and none oftem worked.

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Sir Rugmuncher

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Its a sony VGN-S38GP.....

Thanks

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Weird thing is that PXE does take an IP from the tftpd server.... But bart boot drive doesn't..

Also I tried a sysangel way of doing PXE booting, but it requires large downloads from the internet to create a "repositry" and I have slow internet, 512K. But, I was able to successfully connect to the PC.

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Sir Rugmuncher

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Heyo,

Finally got this to work. Downloaded latest DOS drivers for my NIC and created the necessary .cab file and injected it back into the bart drive image.

I realised that both XP and windows 7 (RC1) gave me problems when I moved the hard disk between computers, but an installation of ubuntu worked perfectly.

Oh well... Back to my XP :D

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