How To Install Windows Xp On Another Hard Drive

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Posted 08 July 2016 - 04:50 AM

Clean Install Windows Straight from the Hard disk
Y'all desire to install Windows but you lot can't use a DVD or an USB for any reason?

This tutorial will show you a method that will permit you to boot and install Windows directly from the hard disk drive drive (HDD).

Annotation : This guide only works for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 OS'south.

Part 1: Preparing the HDD
•    If there is no Windows OS currently installed on the HDD then connect the HDD to a another working calculator (with Windows installed)
•    Create a 4GB primary sectionalization.
•    Format the 4GB partition with NTFS file system.
•    Assign a drive letter to that new division.
•    Copy the content of the Windows 7 Setup DVD to the 4GB partition.

How To Create Actress Partitions In Windows Using Disk Management Console

Part 2: Making the HDD Bootable
1. Open the Control Prompt every bit a Ambassador, type cmd.exe into the Start Card search box, right click on cmd.exe, and so select "Run as administrator".
ii.   Enter the commands beneath, while replacing zero (0) number with your HDD assigned disk number and supplant the Ten alphabetic character with the drive letter assigned to the division you accept created earlier on your HDD.

diskpart  listing disk  select disk 0  listing division  select partition X  agile  exit

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three. Within the Command Prompt blazon the command below:

X:\kicking\bootsect.exe /nt60 Y:

Supercede the 10: bulldoze letter of the alphabet with the drive letter of the CD/DVD-ROM optical drive where the Windows Setup DVD is inserted.

Supplant the Y: drive letter with the drive letter of the 4GB sectionalisation you have created.

Part iii: Booting and installing Windows

Make sure that the BIOS is configured to boot from the hard disk bulldoze (HDD).

If y'all did everything correctly, you should see "Windows is loading files ..." and a progress bar.

Y'all tin now install Windows as usual.

Part 4: Delete the 4GB partition

You have to speedily edit the boot card once Windows is installed.

ane. In Windows, press the keys;

two. Blazon msconfig into Run dialog box that has opened and click on OK;
3.  Click on the Kick tab from Organisation Configuration at the top;
4.  Click 'Windows Setup (\windows)', and click on the Delete button;
5.    Click OK;

half dozen. Click on 'Exit without restart';

If the 4GB partition is designated as a Organization segmentation so in this situation yous cannot delete that 4GB partition.

Follow the guide below to delete the 4GB partition if yous were to find yourself in a such state of affairs.

Note : Only follow the guide beneath if the 4GB sectionalization is designated as a System partition.

1.    Mark the C: partition as an agile sectionalization from the Disk Management Utility;

ii.  Open the Command Prompt every bit a Administrator and type:

Bcdboot C:\windows

3.   Restart your calculator;

Note : If the Bcdboot command is missing from Windows Vista, the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit  contains the Bcdboot.exe tool. The Bcdboot.exe file is included at following locations: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\BCDBoot" directory.

Notation : Make sure to change the Command Prompt directory path to Bcdboot.exe file stored directory path with the Cd command.

And lastly, delete the 4GB division this volition costless upwardly 4GB which y'all can extend to the C: division with the MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition.

1.  Inside MiniTool Partition Wizard select the 4GB partition;

2.  From the left pane click on "Delete Partition";
3.  Click on the OK button and click on Employ from the toolbar;
iv.  Within MiniTool Sectionalisation Sorcerer select the C: sectionalization and click on "Move/Resize" to enter the adjacent interface;
5.    Increase the C: partition size by dragging the right arrow of the scroll bar to the correct or directly entering accurate values in the text boxes below;

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vi.  After you're done with the settings, click on the "OK" push button;
vii.    Click on Apply in the toolbar;
8.    Click on the "Restart Now" push on the Notice dialog box;

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Posted 17 July 2018 - 01:26 PM

Thank you so much this was extremely helpful!

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Posted 09 February 2019 - 05:55 PM

Sir how if i aleardy delete the partitioning without deleting kicking options and running BCDBoot , and now i get stuck at "insert kicking media in selected boot device and printing a primal" please help

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Posted 10 February 2019 - 07:36 AM

Sir how if i aleardy delete the segmentation without deleting kicking options and running BCDBoot , and now i go stuck at "insert boot media in selected kicking device and press a key" please help

Without you lot have access to Windows Recovery Environs there is non much i can do to help you.

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Posted 15 September 2021 - 05:43 PM

Cheers, cracking tutorial!

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#6 patientx

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Posted 23 October 2021 - 06:33 AM

In that location is a far easier fashion to this , but utilize rufus.

Connect the hdd you want to a windows pc in whatever way so open rufus. Press Alt F this enables showing hdd drives. Carefully select your bulldoze and just burn down whatever windows iso you lot want to the hdd. Information technology makes it bootable besides.

Also since we aren't creating another partition after successfully installing and setting windows as default OS, you can delete the windows setup option in kicking menu -via msconfig easiest- and also can delete , autorun file efi and support folders in C.

Very like shooting fish in a barrel and fastest method. Simply another notation hither, my laptop has a t5600 core2duo and while it says it is a 64 chip cpu in the past when I tried installing 64 scrap Bone's to it via cd dvd or usb install methods I couldnt do it at all. Only via this method I WAS ABLE TO QUICKLY INSTALL AND Apply all 32 & 64 scrap Os's,  even windows 11 to this device -just 10 & 11 can't recognise many if not all devices on the laptop so they aren't useful in real life.

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