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Win95 won't install on my system - why?
Well, if something happens and Windows is suddenly unbootable or otherwise needs to be reinstalled, she won't lose her work because D: will be immune to anything that happens on C:. One solution is for you to purchase an OEM copy of MCE2005 and do a completely clean install of it on the laptop OEM copy.

XP won't start in normal mode -
I searched for specific Debian laptop-howtos to no avail. I have never undertaken a laptop install, so this will mark my induction to the laptop Linux community. Note that you usually have to adapt a little for Debian specifics, but you can often determine what will work and what won't from other guides.

installing Windows98 on a machine without cdrom-drive
Besides, if you already installed XP on another computer, you cannot use that same Product Key with a second installation on another computer.....won't activate. Any guidance would be appreciated I own a copy of Windows XP Professional which I am hoping to install on the laptop which currently has.

ram requirements
"Can I do a clean install on the laptop using the XP Home CD and use the CD Key from MCE on the back of the laptop to activate the laptop install?" A. No. Q. 2. So an Upgrade copy won't work. It has to be a full version of XP Home or Pro and do a clean install. -- Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

I have a boot problem?
Warren Young tang...@cyberport.com alt hackers Kirk Is wrote: * Where can I get Windows 3.1 to install on that laptop? A friend. Get one. They're fun. (How can it be piracy if even the company that owns the IP won't sell you a copy?) * Is there any where to get a bootdisk with Interlnk/Interserver for one last try

Installing WP8 to laptop without CDROM
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,

Will I be able to do a new install with this stuff..?
They DO have a Windows XP Home CD that came with their laptop. Actually they've got 2: 1 "Quick Recovery" which wipes everything and 1 "Windows XP Home SP1" CD that looks like I can use to do an However, the old and new keys must be of the same type (Retail/OEM/Corporate) or it won't be possible to activate it.

Windows XP won't install
This isn't hard to do with the appropriate adapter to allow you to install a laptop hd into your desktop, but I suggest finding somebody to help you with it, local computer store perhaps. ---Windows excuse #38 as applied to cars: You have a door ding, no wonder it won't start! Fixing computers in Columbia Missouri

reading word documents in new laptop
All of the necessary parts of it weren't in the IE folder. I tried several methods of installing it but nothing seems to work. Neither Windows XP nor AOL 7.0 have a useable Internet Explorer. Are there any known problems? Are there any reasons why it won't install on a laptop? Please Advise if you know of anything.

IE won't install on my laptop when installing windows xp pro
Willit anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general A clean install on a laptop is risky at best. I'm using the 6 boot floppies rather than booting off the CD so it won't copy the setup files to the hard drive. You see, if it copies the setup files to the hard drive you cannot format

NT Server Install on laptop, lots of questions
http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx? view=22&pcid=a9d2c448-eb05-4a2b-a062-9c711c533e0c However in your case a retail key won't work with your OEM versions. So silly as it may seem the answer is that you will need to purchase a copy of XP to install onto your laptop. In fact you can't legally remove

Installation fails, says it is missing files?
Printer and null modem cables won't work on the printer port. The printer port is faster than using a serial port. I use it from a Notebook to PC to transfer Moritz Directcc is a Windows Program. A Laplink program would work in Dos and it's simpler to setup than Directcc. BoB has a good point, will the Laptop

CD-ROM with Compaq LTE external bus
You only need about 100MB of them. If you do it while you're sleeping, you won't care how long it takes. You didn't mention how big the drive is. So, now I'm wondering how the hell to install an OS. I've decided to use Windows 98 SE and I have the install kit, Windows 98 and startup diskette.

Corrupted Files -- Is This Possible?
CA comp os ms-windows win95 setup I have tried to install Windows 95 on my system but it consistently dies at the same point. 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 agreement thing and it searches

Internet 6.0 won't install on laptop
"dcc" wrote: Hi, I have a Medion Laptop that I am trying to install XP back on to. However, when boot from CD it loads to the blue XP install screen where you press return to install. When pressing return the Laptop just resets its self. I have no floppy drive on the laptop and have a windows 98 boot disk on CD if

purchasing windows xp
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

Microsoft Expedia Streets and Trips 2000
[Plus we have had issues doing a clean install on a laptop in the past]...so these two little guys are my one and only upgrades. They had no issues whatever. .... For get about it? Or just certain services won't work on those machines? Any help with this would be most appreciated. Thanks Keith Weldon.

clean install on laptop
I was able to find that version on the microsoft site and install it on the laptop. But, I also noticed there appeared to be an even newer version on the site. Disable disk in BIOS (you may have to disable the whole IDE channel, I don't remember what works for XP). Then BIOS won't know about the disk,

Used an off-the-shelf XP Home CD to re-install on a laptop W/O
Section (b) in your license allows for a second installation to a laptop owned by you. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP Vista and won't allow me to open any documents from my desktop that has XP and word .. the laptop doesn't have any thing preloaded as far as a word processor,

New Photoshop CS
BTW, that raw partition trick is not for the faint-of-heart -- imagine taking your laptop drive out and sticking into a desktop and rebooting. That's the effect. Windows won't take that kind of abuse. the other thing stopping me is that Win2K is terribly slow with a native install on this laptop; adding the VMWare