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XP Won't Install on Laptop
I could still finish the install on the laptop because I could share the Windows 98 SE update CD from my other computer. Unfortunately, it won't work in reverse--no CD drive in the laptop. What's the workaround? Can I just try to copy the CD to the hard drive and run setup from there? Thanks.

MapPoint 2006 won't start!!
alexis alexisather...@aol.com microsoft public windows server general I am trying to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop w/Windows Me with the Internet Explorer 6.0. I have recently installed a dial up DSL line & my computer meets all of the specs for dsl with MSN 9.0 w/ the exception of the Int. Explr 6,

Windows 98 SE setup error SU991010
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion I haven't tried this myself, but I think that Windows 98 won't install over a network or I have tried several ways but the software will not install to laptop.WHY? Also, since the laptop has no CD, I put all the cab files, drivers,

Power Port Safety Concerns
Pro over home shouldn't be a problem. Folks will bash me for saying this, but you would be violating the OEM license for your XP Home install if you attempted to install it on another laptop. Outside of that though there is a good chance that won't work anyway. Laptop installs tend to be the most customized and

morally illegal?
The install routine has to be written to allow it to install from that partition on the hard drive to the primary partition, so when you try to install from CD, the path won't be correct. _ , is there a way to extract all theses? I want to copy to a cd and do a clean install on the laptop. Thanks, Dan.

XP Won't Install on Laptop
Or is the Win98 CD in someway copy protected so that it won't be possible to get everything on the CD to the JAZ? I will purchase the Win98 CD, and be making a legal copy for my own use only. Is this possible? Or do you have any other ideas to get a new install on the laptop? Thank.

Display driver won't install on laptop
CD only to install on a laptop with a licence sticker With version, pre or post SP1? It does matter as they changed the licence keys so a pre SP1 key won't work on a post SP1 CD. Good question, I am not sure. I have a licence sticker on the bottom of a HP/Compaq Presario 2100 which is a bit over 2 years old i think

IE won't install on my laptop when installing windows xp pro
Thanks Well, my interpretation of the text you quoted would be that you can install it on the laptop as long as you are the only person who uses it. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if you ever find yourself in court my interpretation won't count for ... well, it just won't count. -- Brendan Reynolds.

Well, it took for frickin' ever, but my laptop is up and running
I didn't think SP2 could be installed in safe mode(?) I installed it just yesterday on a machine with a CPU dying in order to straighten out it's Windows (easier on the CPU than a repair install) in safe mode. Seemed to go fine. Interestingly, I was attempting to install it on a laptop during the week when the

Problem installing Win98 SE to laptop with no CD drive thur ...
The cd must be damaged you say? nope. i have seen it successfully install on a laptop with a 5 gig harddrive and a 13 gig udma 66 harddrive in a athlon system. If you're trying to upgrade Windows 2000 with Windows XP Home, it won't do it. Otherwise, you could go to Start/Run and run setup.exe off the CD from

Installing one copy of XP on two home computers
I have a Fujitsu laptop that is a couple of years old. Mine came with a 1.6GB hard drive, but the max at that time for this model was two hard drives of 3.2GB I installed it physically in the computer with no problem, but the computer won't recognize the hard drive. Fujitsu acknowledges that the existing BIOS

Wanted XP home edition CD
I know attaching a pic is not cool in this group, but if it can help someone to figure out why this stupid modem won't work... I only have 2 cards in there, How would I do a fresh install on this laptop as I can only have a floppy OR A CD-ROM; not both. And It does not appear it will boot from the CD-ROM.

Graphical install with 7.0-2 won't start
We're all in this boat together, and I don't wanna sink! Echo binkybarnes wrote: i just checked...the license agreement only allows installation on ONE if i put together a slideshow on xp using the new transitions it won't make any difference when i project them using my laptop which only has office 2000 pro?

Recomendation sought
It will install on a laptop no problem but not my main system. What happens is that the install gets through the first three disks, I answer "Yes" to their I tried putting disk 4 in the drive ahead of time to see if it was "expecting" it but it didn't help at all. I have tried wiping all drives so that there

Giving up on Fedora/linux
be...@my-deja.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage I have a Fujitsu laptop that is a couple of years old. Mine came with a 1.6GB hard drive, I installed it physically in the computer with no problem, but the computer won't recognize the hard drive. Fujitsu acknowledges that the existing BIOS won't handle a HD

does anybody know an very old technology called BBS and how to ...
Christopher Allen Berend cber...@infohouse.com comp os linux setup I'm running RH 5.0 on a DELL Inspiron 3000 233XT and I had to install Laptop The manual isn't very clear, but it mentions something about xterm. When I try to run xterm it won't allow me to do so and gives me a message telling me that I have to

Win 95 floppies won't install on laptop
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Install on a laptop -- no CD no floppy
They won't supply a recover CD, but they did send me a replacement HD with the original installation. The problem there is that I can't get the old HD out by I've found that one of the easiest ways to deal with a difficult-to-install laptop is to remove the hard drive, plug it into a desktop system to do the

OT maybe?? - Internet Explorer 5.5
Lowell Gilbert <lguse...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't necessarily get much help here (in The normal FreeBSD installation process requires being able to boot a FreeBSD kernel. The easiest thing might be to put the disk in another machine.

Pikey Tutorial #1:How to get r00ted!
... 25 Apr 2006 09:10:04 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote (in article <C07397EC. 197CDC%chrisr...@mac.com>): Wouldn't that install laptop-specific bits onto the target disk? Seemed to work fine - and the client hasn't called saying that the machine won't go to sleep when she folds the G4 iMac screen down onto the keyboard.