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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Guest_Jimmy on November 30, 2003, 05:43:28 PM
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I`m trying to install windows 2000 pro on my laptop that I bought from DELL. It`s duel-booting windows 98 and ME on separate partitions, and The hard drive is rather small (im not sure how big, only a couple hundred mbs on each partition left). So, I want to reformat it and do a clean install of windows 2000 pro.
Anyhow, I thought it was going 2 be a walk in the park since I`ve done this a million times; with my desktops. Turns out that my friend has my CD-ROM drive with him, and he's all the way over in Wisconsin. I have an external USB CD-ROM drive with me, but when I run the setup, it won`t detect the external drive (probably cuz it USB). During setup, you can press F6 to load any SCSI drivers, but I don`t know if this drive is that kind...
So, I pressed it and tried my CD-ROM driver manufacterer disk. It apparently needs a file called `txtsetup.oem,` to work. I tried searching my computer for it, I`ve tried the setup diskettes. I googled it, but found nothing for my CD-ROM drive. Can some1 help me? It's a Philips CD-ROM/RW drive, series 400. If you need more info, tell me.
Thx for any help!
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You will not be able to use the usb cdrom during the dos part of setup. If i were you i'd copy the contents of the windows cd \i386 directory to one of your partitions on your laptop then reboot and at a dos prompt go to the directory where you've copied the i386 stuff and type winnt /ox
This should work for you.
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txtsetup.oem is actually just the driver you want to install.
So for instance you want to installa SCSI card and the driver is adaptec.inf, rename the adaptec.inf file to txtsetup.oem and stick the disk in after doing the F6 thing. That's all there is to it.