Okay, I'm tearing my hair out here trying to install XP on an old laptop. The CD-Rom drive is knackered and it's not removable so replacing it would require finding a compatible unit (almost impossible) and then re-building it to install.
I'm currently trying to install off a USB cd-rom drive. The laptop is to old to boot directly from USB. I've managed to get the drive working in dos using various device drivers I've found but I'm having problems with the install.
I use the dos setup program (\i386\winnt.exe) which happily copies the files across to the hard-drive then reboots. On reboot though, I just get the error message 'operating system not found'.
Any suggestions as to how I could go about installing Windows in this scenario?
I'm currently trying to install off a USB cd-rom drive. The laptop is to old to boot directly from USB. I've managed to get the drive working in dos using various device drivers I've found but I'm having problems with the install.
I use the dos setup program (\i386\winnt.exe) which happily copies the files across to the hard-drive then reboots. On reboot though, I just get the error message 'operating system not found'.
Any suggestions as to how I could go about installing Windows in this scenario?