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by mrobst
Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:12 pm
Forum: XP installation
Topic: XP installation problems
Replies: 2
Views: 7620

Re: XP installation problems

OK I pretty much got there in the end so I'll post what happened in case someone else has similar issues. I seemed to have gone wrong by copying the XP installation files onto an already formatted NTFS partition. When installing I couldn't then reformat (as it deleted the install files) and this als...
by mrobst
Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:55 pm
Forum: XP installation
Topic: XP installation problems
Replies: 2
Views: 7620

Re: XP installation problems

I got a bit further today. Worked out from the postings in the BIOS forum that my "operating system not found" is a BIOS bug caused by the extended startup test being on. After I got round this I got back to the NTLDR missing error. Managed to get Knoppix installed on a USB key and booted from this....
by mrobst
Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:01 am
Forum: XP installation
Topic: XP installation problems
Replies: 2
Views: 7620

XP installation problems

HI All, I bought at fit-pc2 a few weeks ago with Ubuntu 8.04 on (Linux is my preferred OS). All worked OK until I realised that the USB VGA adapter I bought needed windows drivers to work. I read through many of the posts on here about installing XP and thought I'd give it a go...... I've got an ori...

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