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Can't install Win XP Pro on new HD

  • 04-04-2007 4:11pm
    #1
    lukin
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    I have a Targa laptop which I bought two years ago. It came with a Win XP Home CD but I prefer XP Professional so I wiped the drive recently and tried to install Win XP Pro on it.
    However it wouldn't let me: it only got as far as "setup is inspecting your hardware configuration" and then just re-booted and re-booted.
    I thought it was problem with the HD so I bought a new one and tried installing Pro on that. Again, same story.
    For some reason the only OS I can install on this laptop is the Win XP Home Edition disc I got with it.
    There's nothing wrong with the XP Pro disc, it works fine on my desktop.
    I want to use Pro instead of Home, but the only way around it I can think of is to install Home Edition and then install Pro over it. Not ideal, I don't even know if you can do that?

    Edit:sorry mods, I posted in the wrong forum.
    Also: I think I know what's wrong:it's nothing to do with the laptop, it's the XP Pro disc; it doesn't boot from the DVD-ROM drive on startup.
    It's a version of XP that students get for free; you download an ISO image of it and then burn it to disc.
    For some reason it's not bootable from startup, only once Windows is started.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Locked because the licensing is unclear - will reopen if there is a valid transferrable XP Pro license in addition to the one on the desktop.

    Microsoft don't do Free OS's , except for time limited trials.

    you could use CD2ISO to read the CD and compare the MD5 checksum to the one on microsoft's site.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    License OK

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/factspage/
    Membership in MSDN AA offers STEM departments numerous benefits including:

    * Access to the latest set of Microsoft platforms, servers, and developer tools.
    * License to install the software on any number of lab machines used by the department for instructional and research purposes.
    * License to provide the software to students taking courses that lead to credit or a certificate within the member department

    Did you burn the ISO or just copy it to a CD ?

    The windows 2003 RK contains # Cdburn.exe: ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool
    as well as other useful goodies
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en

    cd2iso www.dubaron.com/cd2iso can be used to verify a cd

    www.isobuster.com/ will allow you to extract files from an ISO image, - if all else failed you could copy the files to a FAT32 partition on the HDD and then boot up with a dos boot disk and run winnt in the i386 folder ( you might have to unlock the drive with the LOCK command if using a win 98 boot disk )


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