Installing Windows XP and 2000 A lot of people appear to be unaware of the fact that YOU DO NOT need the 4, 5 or 6 setup disks in order to install Windows 2000 and XP. A common Win98 boot disk such as the one in our disk can be used to install these OS's. It's all found in my SuperbootDisk |
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This CD here is essentially in response to people who want a bootable CDrom utilities disk to help them install Windows XP fresh when their floppy drive is bad or when there is no floppy drive. You can also use this disk for Windows XP and Win98SE.
The file
you will download will be a .zip file containing an .iso image file of
the bootable Disk. Use a burning program which can
burn images including .iso's such as Nero (Active@ Iso Burner is
included). When booting from the CD the
- Boot Files will be seen as Drive A:
- and the Utilities will be seen as Drive R:
- The utilities are separated from the boot files so you can use them in Windows without booting from the CD.
You may be thinking why use this CD when the
Windows CD is bootable?
Well, the main reasons are:
- This disk has the tools you need to totally clean your hard drive of EVERYTHING.
- it allows you to install XP from your hard drive which has some advantages prior to, and during the install and also, later on after XP is running.
- Being able to run a full scandisk on your hard drive before you use it again to see if there are any bad sectors that need to be marked bad
- It includes the utilities you may need to bring your hard drive back to a factory fresh state to help guarantee a successful Windows installation.
- Or perhaps, you just want XP on a large FAT32 partition to make accessing and/or recovering data much easier in case of of system crash.
- You can also use fdisk to create a larger than 32 gig partition for XP. Fdisk will of course create the partition in FAT32 but you can convert it later to NTFS after XP is installed using the convert utility in XP.
- The bootable CD boots to a menu where you can choose one of the four universal CDrom drivers. This is necessary to read and use other cdrom disks after booting up with this disk.
- Just an excellent CD to have around your computer room. You never know when you will need it.
Once
you've booted from the CD you made, you can now setup your hard drive
[fdisk, format, zero fill, wipe out all partitions etc.] and properly
prepare it for a 100% fresh install on a squeaky clean disk.
I've also included a utility called setuphd.bat which makes your C:
drive on bootup see your IDE CDrom Drive. The utility copies the dos
utilities to C:\utils and transfers a working config.sys and
autoexec.bat files to C: It also transfers the win98se system
files to C: to make it bootable. You can only use setuphd.bat
if you boot from the CD.
This gives you the option of booting to C: and then following the
directions in the "hints" section in the help file. Yes you'll be in DOS 7.1 which either XP or
Win98 can install from.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
When you
use this cdrom bootdisk the basic startup files will show up
as Drive A: The utilities which are on the same CD
disk will show up as Drive R: If you have two CDrom drives
the second one will be Drive S:
There are two ways to read the help file on the CD.
First, you can type edit readme.txt which uses dos edit to read the
file, or, you can type help which opens up the file in a special
viewer.
* This item is sold as a downloadable .zip file only!
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AND I WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL FREE BONUSES:
These
files are included in the file you download!
KeyFinder
The
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your
Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has
the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or
print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000,
XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office 97, Office XP, and Office 2003
LapLink
Version 3
Serial or Parallel file transfer between two computers. It's easy to
move programs, files,
settings; between different computers.
MADBOOT 8.0
This is a boot disk creator especially for upgrading and
troubleshooting older PCs. It features two-click automated installation
of Windows 9x, NT, 2000 and XP; two-click hard drive formatting,
partition management, BIOS clearing, and cleaning of temporary files.
My Universal Superboot Disk
It's a 100% Menu Driven Windows Floppy Boot disk. It works with windows
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ISO Burner is a freeware application that will allow you
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