Install Windows XP from hard disk

First, decompress the downloaded ISO file with winrara or extract the i386 directory (as long as i386) from the virtual Optical Drive,
Copy to a disk, for example, drive F.

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Enter "F:" And press Enter. At this time, the F disk is switched to the f disk, and the screen shows F:/> _
Enter "smartdrv" and press Enter. (Note: You can search on the network or find the format.exeand smartdrv.exe files in the C:/windowsdirectory of WIN98 and copy them to the folder on drive F .) Enter "smartdrv" and press Enter. In this way, the disk cache is loaded to dos. If you install Windows 2000 or XP in DOS without loading the disk cache, your installation time will be several times longer. As shown in. If no image is displayed, loading the disk cache fails. (Note: To view the folders and files in the current path, enter "dir" and press Enter. To return to the root directory, enter "CD/" and press Enter)

Format drive C
After loading the disk cache, enter "format Space C:" And press enter to format the drive C. Formatting disk C deletes all data on disk C. The screen appears. (Note: In the XP system as a MS-DOS boot disk does not support the format. EXE command, will prompt format is not a valid doscommand ),

Do you want to execute the format command? If you are sure you want to format drive C, enter y and press Enter. Otherwise, enter N and press enter to exit the format drive C.
Enter y and press enter to format drive C, as shown in:

After the C drive is formatted, the following occurs:

Wait for you to name the formatted drive C. Generally, press Enter.
Install Windows XP Professional
If your installation file is placed in the xpvlksp1 directory of drive F, after formatting the drive C, the following prompt appears on the screen: "F: /> enter "CD space xpvlksp1/i386" To Go To The i386 folder under the installation directory, as shown in.

After "F:/xpvlksp1/i386> _" is displayed in the lower part, enter "winnt" and press enter to start installing Windows XP:

Confirm whether to copy the file from here and press Enter. Start copying files. During file copying, it takes about a few minutes to pause and then start the second copy of the file (if you do not run smartdrv to load the disk cache, the first copy of the file will pause for 4-5 hours and then start the second copy of the file, remember! Remember !), The second copy of the file appears, as shown in:

 

 

Here, you are prompted to remove the boot floppy disk. After removing the boot floppy disk, press enter to reproduce the boot and perform the next installation.
After the instance is restarted, the following error occurs:

Here, press enter to display:

There is no choice here. Press F8 for example:

Here, use the "partition or partition" arrow to select the partition where the system is located. If you have formatted drive C, select partition C and press enter to display:

Select the file format used by the selected partition (drive C. (Note: The NTFS format is only used for operating systems of XP, 2003, or other later versions. It cannot be identified or used in DOS, Win98, or winme, if you want to install a dual-system or run the program in DOS, use the FAT32 format)
Press enter and the installer starts scanning the disk. After checking the disk error, the installer begins to copy the system file. The following error occurs:

 

After the file is copied, the following error occurs:

Prepare to restart. The winows XP startup screen appears for the first time at startup, for example:

 

The installation continues:

 

Here, you don't have to worry about it. Wait for installation ......