One for the techies #2

[tel]

The message about drivers etc comes up pretty quickly.

Is your CD duff?

[TG]

No. Genuine.

[Barman]

It doesn't get that far and gives no other options other than abort the installation.

The man will sort it out on the 18th.

I shall tell you wot he did cos I know you are all waiting with bated breath.

I shall pay him in pickled onions. 

I think it is a SATA problem...

[TG]

It doesn't get that far and gives no other options other than abort the installation.

The man will sort it out on the 18th.

I shall tell you wot he did cos I know you are all waiting with bated breath.

I shall pay him in pickled onions. 

I think it is a SATA problem...

It was.

My XP copy was just too old.

The man downloaded the drivers and used a piece of software to create a new XP boot CD that combined my copy with the new drivers.

Ticks like a clock.

[Barman]

It doesn't get that far and gives no other options other than abort the installation.

The man will sort it out on the 18th.

I shall tell you wot he did cos I know you are all waiting with bated breath.

I shall pay him in pickled onions. 

I think it is a SATA problem...

It was.

My XP copy was just too old.

The man downloaded the drivers and used a piece of software to create a new XP boot CD that combined my copy with the new drivers.

Ticks like a clock.

I am a technical MegaGod... 

[TG]

So wot software do you think he used? To create a new XP disc like?

Answers on a postcard to Snoopys sickbed cos' he might be even more poorly without knowing.

[Snoopy]

  Tell me then ~ I have just got here, having read everything that has been posted over the last 5 days and the last thing I read turns out to be a cliff hanger ..................... Barsteward 

[tel]

It involves copying files from the i386 folder, creating file(s) etc. - you need a working PC to do this obviously.

More than one way to do it if I recall. Haven't done it for ages.
I always keep various types of recovery CDs in my toolkit.

[Snoopy]

Thanks tel ~ that's as clear as mud 


My HP pc keeps prompting me to make a back-up recovery disc. BUT it won't allow me to do so as every time I put a disc in and press the appropriate tit the damned machine tells me that my disc isn't big enough. I would be happy to create a series of discs but that doesn't appear to be an option that HP have recognised. Their Help Desk is singularly unhelpful, their best suggestion to date being "Don't use a cd-r, try using a rewritable DVD but the machine won't accept that option either, posting on-screen messages telling me to insert a cd-r and not a DVD ...... So I soldier on with no recovery discs.

[Barman]

So wot software do you think he used? To create a new XP disc like?

Answers on a postcard to Snoopys sickbed cos' he might be even more poorly without knowing.

I have no idea... 

[Snoopy]

Still in Dallas I presume 

I think this is in the wrong thread
   http://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=7017.msg187818#msg187818

[Miss Demeanour]

See I don't even know what thread I'm posting in now 

Thanks Snoops 

[Snoopy]

Shot away that gerl. 

[tel]

There's -

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/winxp_bootable.htm

http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml

http://apcmag.com/how_to_create_a_bootable_xp_sp3_cd.htm

for starters.

[Snoopy]

Excellent thanks!














Errrr ~ one doesn't like to be picky but I'm running Vi$ta