hi all im trying to install xp pro on me old fujitsu/seimens laptop which originaly had windows 98 on then a mate had put xp home on but i want to reformat wipe the hdd
clean and put xp pro on it,ive booting up from the external cdrom with the xp pro disc
in and it just loads win home up as normal,so i downloaded 98 ms-dos drivers to enabled
to boot up from external drive,ive also set the bios to boot the ext drive 1st but it dont see
the external drive.do i need a xp boot up disc or will i have to put win 98 back on and upgrade to xp pro,ive got the c.o.a sticker for win98 underneath the lappy for which i can reg the 98 o/s prior to xp pro
sorry for the long post but i thought it best to give much info i can

thanks....

fujitsu seimens laptop e series lifebook
128mb ram
20 gig hdd

Hi there, what does XP Pro Setup say when it launches?

thanks for reply it dont boot from when i reboot i can manually set it going it then says
install xp,upgrade xp,repair xp etc
i hope this helps..

Download an XP Boot disk from Bootdisk.Com, and boot from that. . Under XP Quick Boot Diskette you want the exe file .

hi ive downloaded the quick xp boot diskette and extracted the exe file to a floppy rebooted nothing hapens just carries on loading xp home,do i need to download all of the xp boot diskette which is about 6 floppys or just the exe file

thanks..

Hey there mate. use this to create a bootable floppy with usb drivers, it will tell you the usb drive letter on boot and you can then just go to (assuming D is the drive letter it tells you) D:\i386\WINNT.exe and it should install.

Use the exe to create the boot disk, don't just copy the exe file to floppy.

Make sure floppy is first on the boot priority list.

Hope this helps.

-Lebowski.