Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:49:42 -0600 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Please Help Again: New Problems Installing Win XP On L100
Hello again. I posted a question about installing Win XP on my L100 yesterday. Sorry to be back again so soon, but I've run into more problems using a different approach.
What I did this time is:
1. I installed the Libretto's hard drive in my desktop as the secondary drive, formatted as FAT32 and partitioned as 8GB primary-100MB free-10GB primary, copied the Win XP install CD to a directory on the hard drive, then re-installed the hard drive in the Libretto, booted from a Win 98 boot floppy, ran "smartdrv.exe", went to the i386 directory, and ran "winnt.exe".
2. This started the Setup process in DOS, and after various files were copied over, I came to a screen that said the DOS part of Setup was completed and instructing me to remove any floppy disk and press "Enter" to restart the computer and continue Setup.
3. I did so, and the Libretto wouldn't reboot. I got a message saying "invalid system disk" and instructing me to replace the disk and hit "Enter".
4. When I insert the Win 98 boot floppy (the only "system disk" I could think of), Setup doesn't continue, instead the Libretto simply boots from the boot floppy to the "a:\" prompt. I've tried setting the BIOS to boot from HDD first or from FDD first, it doesn't make a difference.
I've also tried installing Win 2K and Win 98 in the same manner, and I run into exactly the same problem: after the first part of the setup is complete, and the Libretto needs to be restarted to complete the setup process, it won't restart - it always goes to the "invalid system disk" message. I've also tried this process with two different hard drives, with the same problem.
I am really quite stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions? It sort of seems like the Libretto isn't recognizing the c:\ drive as a "system drive". My feeling is this isn't a Libretto-specific problem, it is a generic computer problem. But I have no idea what it is.
