Indeed USB is not an option.
I reckon you could try connecting an external dvd drive. If possible
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hi I have a problem , I'm trying to install windows xp on a PH OMNIBOOK 500 , IT DOES NOT HAVE INTERNAL DRIVE I'M TRYING TO DO IT USING AN Iomega external drive connected trough a USB port but ,it dos not seam to recognize the external drive in order to be able to install the system , what can I do thanks or is there any other way to insall it
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I haven't tried it, but could it not be theoretically possible to install Windows XP to an internal drive and then do a bit-for-bit copy to the external USB drive. As long as the BIOS can boot from USB devices, and is set to do so then there should be no problem but this is speculation over a quick lunch at work and not tried and tested advice!
I'm waiting for someone to tell me why that wouldn't work now (and I know the BOOT.INI would need to be modified)
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Hope this helps!!
ok I just bought an external floppy drive cause it did not have one , just to see if there is a way to install windows xp or 98 , but how about if I connect the hard drive in another laptop , or pc , and then connect it back to the laptop , to which I'm trying to install the system to , will this work or not ,,,,, the external floppy disk does work
According to the specs of the omnibook, there is an internal ide disk, so there shouldn't be any problem installing windows XP to that internal disk. It also shouldn't be any problem putting another disk inside if you don't want to delete what is on the disk now.
All you need is to boot your windows xp cdrom and start the isntallation that way.
With some luck you might even find some drivers for your hardware from the HP Site, and if it isn't windows XP specific the windows 2000 drivers often work too. After all, windows 2000 is officially supported for this PC by HP!
Just forget installing windows xp to a USB drive, as mentioned above!
If you boot with the CD-ROM attached does the Windows installer start, yet during the install it doesn't find the CD?
If this is the case, download the drivers for XP from Iomega's website and press F6 during the installation process to specify additional drivers.
Otherwise, download the XP boot floppies from the Microsoft website with the USB floppy drive. Then load the cd-rom drivers for the Iomega drive. If the CD is recognized, then the boot floppies are all you need.
Dos shouldn't need to recognize your external drive, as long as it is bootable the windows installer should start, as the penguin states. A driver in such a case isn't necessary. the driver you install with F6 is for thedestination disk, and not the source.
What you might have to do is change the boot order from inside your BIOS, so the PC starts from the CD first.
Try booting your CD first, this way of installing is easier and faster than using a floppy.
The IDE controller will be found automatically, but the Iomega USB CD-ROM may not. That is why I suggested grabbing the driver. It is possible to start an installation from the floppy disc yet not be able to see the CD-ROM. It all depends on the hardware.
Additionally, I have seen the Windows installer not ennumerate the USB floppy as A: if "USB floppy" is enabled in the BIOS. If you turn off USB floppy, the drive was detected and enumerated by the Windows installer correctly. In that case we were trying to supply additional drivers, not start the installation from the floppy.
You'd need something like that in the link below to get access to your USB device in DOS. Your diskette would also need fdisk, sys and format on it. With fdisk you would partition your HD, making at least 2 fat32 partitions (using a modern DOS version, like the one version 7 which gets put on a floppy when you create a boot disk from a Windows 98 PC you will also be able to access fat32). Then format the 2 partitions, run sys c:.
Now copy the \i386 directory from your cd drive to your 2nd partition on your HD, go into that newly created directory and run
winnt. The installation of XP should now start, without needing any other drivers, at least not until windows is upa nd running. Then you will have to add your PC specific drivers which you should download from the HP site.
http://www.bootdisk.com/us
Or you could just boot with the 6 boot floppies for XP and have it load all the drivers you need.
The F6 was optional if for whatever reason the USB cd-rom was not detected. Since Iomega says the defaukt drivers are fine, just use the XP boot floppies and start the installation that way. It's a lot easier than tracking down all the specific drivers.
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by: rindiPosted on 2005-02-21 at 23:40:11ID: 13369475
Sorry, bad news, but you can't install XP to a USB drive. There are no drivers that support this type of setup.
You either need an internal drive or a SCSI-type system. You might be able to get Linux onto a USB drive though. Try knoppix, this is a fully functional linux distribution which runs off CD. There is a script on it the CD which also allows you to copy it to HD's, and if your hardware supports it, it should boot and run off a HD.
http://knoppix.net
If your system has enough RAM you could now install vmware, which lets you install and run other Operating system like windows XP etc from inside linux, as if there was a separate PC. This should probably work with 512 MB RAM, but it won't be too fast, and I don't think you can add more ram into that PC...
http://www.vmware.com/