tied to the Dell or does the XP retail upgrade make the install portable. Ideally I'd like to move the 80 gb laptop drive with XP Pro installed to the Desktop, and just use it for the windows installation and then add a 500 gb hard drive for other software....

98SE, clear, repartition and reformat the hard drive 2. Booting from a floppy made with Windows 98SE, make the hard drive bootable to a C:\ prompt with CD-ROM support. 3. Create a folder on the hard drive C:\DOS and put the contents of the "Windows...

windows98 install. I have picked up this old laptop that has no cd-rom drive. I want to install windows98 on it, and all I have is the cd. Is there some way I can use the cd to make floppy disks for installation? Lain. I have picked up this old laptop...

drive. Best done on a desktop, where >the laptop drives are mounted as additional drives. You may still have >to do a "repair install" to get windows running on the new drive. >Normally, if things go well, this will retain your installed software, >data...

I realize this is a laptop, but there are adapters readily and cheaply available that allow you to install a laptop drive to a desktop.) 2) Boot your laptop from Linux. If you use a "Live" CD, you will be running Linux, but will make no changes to...

a way to make the wizard work? The version of Windows XP installed on the laptop is SP2, if that helps. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () If your new laptop drive is formatted FAT32, you'll have to convert it to NTFS. CONVERTING...

laptop are you running twin 1TB drives in exactly? End of feed. The issue is this: if my 1TB drives work, its obviously not a windows XP problem. And where exactly did I say i was using a laptop? Windows XP is Windows XP, regarless of what you run...

Hi A 'Repair' install is probably the best way to go, but not via the Recovery Console. Please have a look at the following article by Michael Stevens regarding a 'Repair' install of XP: "How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install" -- Will...

a product key? You don't need to to install Vista. You will end up with a 30 day trial and you can enter the key later. If this does not help try installing when not connected to the Internet and after you have done a fresh format and partiton of the drive...