Thanks both of you John and Rush. I have spent almost 5 hours to install windows 2003 server to my new laptop came with Windows 7. I have deleted and recreated Partition using BootIt(TM) Next Generation because I want to do multiple OS on this laptop.I thought something is wrong my new HP laptop. Until I found these tips and I changed the BIOSfrom ACHI to IDE just like Russ. I started windows right away.Just curious why it does not work with ACHI and only works for IDE.Here is the blue screen:I got a blue screen with an error message that said:'A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER.IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS ERROR SCREEN RESTART YOURCOMPUTER.
IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS:CHECK FOR VIRUSES ON YOUR COMPUTER. REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARD DRIVES OR HARD DRIVE CONTROLLERS. CHECK YOUR HARD DRIVE TO MAKES SURE IT IS PROPERLY CONFIGURED AND TERMINATED. RUN CHKDISK /F TO CHECK FOR HARDDRIVE CORRUPTION, AND THEN RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.TECHNICAL INFORMATION:.STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7B6D528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0X00000000) 'Every attempt to boot up in safe mode brought me to this screen. I then tried booting in safe mode through msconfig. I still received the blue screen error message.
However now I receive it no matter how I start windows. Specifically when I try to boot up I am brought to a black screen with the message stating:'We apologize for the inconvenience but Windows did not start successfully. Hey Guys, I was running into this problem too. My BSOD was during the windows xp install, it would get to the part where the bottom of the screen would say preparing to install windows then dead. Here is the only fix I could figure out: (unfortunately this fix assumes you have an image of the computer before the Win7 install)Remove the harddrive from the computer.Use a USB adapter or an external enclosure to plug the drive into another computer.Format the drive to NTFS.Put the harddrive back in the original computer.Put in your Imaging CD (I use Acronis).Flash your image back on to the harddrive.I had to go through about 6 hours of work using this method to take a test computer from Windows 7 64-bit, to Windows Server 2003.Hope this helps someone. I had the same problem as I wanted to install Win XP before the expiration of the pre-installed trial Windows 7.
I followed the advice from John JEASter (this thread) but it didn't work. I kept getting a hang up on 'verifying DMI pool data' when I rebooted after installing Win XP. I even phoned the manufacturer of my PC and talked to the Tech guys and they suspected it was a corrupted BIOS.
However, what I did was to format the whole drive eliminating the 100MB system partition used by Windows 7 and then everything worked fine. Presumably this 100MB partition kept trying to load Windows 7 (which had been deleted) and this caused the problem. I was wondering if you have actually had Windows 7 installed on a C drive, then tried to revert back to XP. I am having the same problem.
Gen plus gx channel installers. Ive used fdisk, and Partition Magic to try to sort out the hard disk but after re-partitioning and re-formatting, the ONLY Operating system that will re-install is Windows 7. I know its not something Im doing wrong cos when I physically change the hard disk, XP installs with no problem. Have Microsoft included something on the Windows 7 install that prevents any other operating system being installed afterwards.??
Here is what I did for people who have a netbook but found in hard doing it with a bootable usb:1. Buy an external enclosed dvd drive unit, they sell for around $30.2. Setup BIOS to boot from CD/usb unit.3. Put the operation disc in the DVD unit and install the same way as if your netbook had a CD/DVD drive.4. This is the best way for people who are not that techie, and also this way saves you time but not money, which is sometimes a good trade off.But the way I did mine by using an old usb hard drive enclosure.
I have a desktop computer and this is what I did:1. Removed the backing on the enclosure unit2. Open the desktop computer and removed the ide and power cables from the dvd rom drive.3. Installed the enclosure backing on the dvd drive4. Hooked up the usb connection from the unit to the netbook.5.
Setup the Bios to boot from cd/dvd drive6. Installed windows xp7.
Take a look at this thread that I authored. It details how to get a WinPE/BartPE environment loaded via PXE. For there you can then map a drive and run the windows XP setup. Oo if your doing a mass deploy you can download a ghost image. Very handy and 100% faster than DOS based solutions.
Tftpd32 Pxe Boot Windows 10
Also the newer Intel chipset SATA/RAID controllers don't have DOS drivers and have very reduced performance compared to Win32 environment.Basically you install the MS TFTP service. Then copy the required boot files + the WinPE ISO image to the%systemroot%driversetc directory.You then need to tweak your DHCP config.
Found here.Then at the PC boot. Press F12 (default) to get the PXE Bios extensions loaded.It will then load the ISO into RAM and then boot. Depending on how you buil the ISO, either via WinPE2005 or BartPE t will load into that environment, where you can then map a drive to run the setup from a network share (unattended?) or un Norton ghost (ghost32) to deploy an image.The first link I've given as a lot of detail in it. This link might also be useful. It similar to the ISO method, but uses a SDI image for a RW ram disk instead.
How To Install Windows Xp
Sometimes useful.If there are any gaps in the above, ask another question I can focus on the particular part your having issues with.Rob. If your looking for a simple DOS type solution, see this link. It's based of syslinux (pxelinux) and the standard Windows untattended setup.Basically using syslinux (pxelinux) boot loader, you can mount virtual floppy images. These act just like a normal Readonly floppy disk. So you can install network drivers and the like on them, map drives and then run the OS setup or ghost, all under DOS.
It's not as fast as WinPE or RIS, but much is more flexible, simpler to setup and doesn't require an MS proprietry stuff like RIS.Also detailed above is cool UNDI (Universal Network Driver Interface) based network boot disk. This boot disk, when boot from PXE will work on any network card. Very cool if yuo need to support a variety of network card types.The floppy disk images can be created with winimage and a preconfigured floppy disk. You then upload them to your TFTP server directory and boot them via pxelinux (+memdisk).Rob. Miloudi -With the newer version of Ghost (8+ i think) you can configure it to work with RIS.
What happens is you install and configure ris. Then install ghost onto the same server and you will be given the option of adding the ghost client to the RIS boot menu.Anyway. If you are just trying to do a standard windows cd (as if it were installed from the cd) i would use RIS. It is easy to configure with a windows xp image straight from the cd (you are actually required to create an image when you install RIS, so you'll probably make an XP image). Hi RoryR,XP Pro supports network booting and network installation, if you have Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory deployed (XP Home does not). Create OS and 'image' and copy it to a share on a server, and set up a couple simple settings (there’s a wizard to guide you through this).
If you’d like to further customize your image with settings or pre-installed software, you just get a test computer the way you want it and run the wizard from that computer.Not all PCs can boot directly from networks; it depends on the BIOS settings and network card. However, any PCs bought for an environment that would use network installs will almost certainly support it. Besides, if a computer doesn’t support it, you can boot the computer from a floppy created with a wizard on the server, which you only need for the first 10 seconds right at boot-up, to get the same effect.Once you start your network boot, you’ll be presented with a series of 2 or 3 text-mode screens (similar to the first part of WinXP setup).
They tell you what's going on (you’re installing WinXP from a network), warn you that your drive will be wiped, ask for a domain username and password for someone who has been given the appropriate permissions, and ask which OS image you’d like to install (such as “Windows 2000 – Marketing”, or “Windows XP – Sales Staff”). This last step is skipped if only one option is available (or permitted).After setup starts, you can leave for half an hour, and your computer will be ready to go, waiting for you to login, when you get back. At this point, the entire setup process will be completely finished, and your workstation will be just like any other established workstation on the system - no hardware left to install, no Windows Activation or registration windows, and no settings to confirm. One exception – if you don’t include the product key with the server image (which you do by adding it to a configuration file), you’ll be asked for it halfway through the setup process.XP also has Group Policy software deployment.
This is a tool administrators can use for installing software, OS updates and service packs, scripts, and pretty much anything else packaged into a Windows Installer file. Software can be assigned (installed automatically) or published (not installed until needed, such as the first time you open a PowerPoint presentation), and can be applied to computers or users.The end result is that when the computer boots up (if assigned to the machine) or the user logs on (if assigned to the user), the software will automatically be installed. Ok thanks, thats more like it. Still doesn't tell me how to use ris or anything, but I like the last part.when u say: 'map the network drive' you mean at dos prompt type: //brian/sharename/win right?gonna read through the sysprep thing tommorow, going to bed now.I have been really busy so haven't had a chance to sit down and try all the stuff ppl have said, I will read through and do it all until I get to one I can understand and works, so far MiguelSilvestre 's comment seems the most helpfull:-)-Rory. RIS is an enterprise solution.
IF that's what you need then great. Else if you want to just get this laptop up and running then I suggest the method I explained above.
Pxe Boot Tutorial
It's much simpler and flexible than RIS and doesn't have the pitfalls.Step by step.1) Install TFTP server. 2) Added the PXE options the DHCP as per this guideYou'll need to add options to your MS DHCP server43=01 04 00 00 00 00 FF60=PXEClient66=67=pxelinux.0. I have xp, and the only understanding of DHCP I have is it assigns ip address's from 1 computer to any other computers on the network when they connect so that there are no ip address conflicts.networking isn't my thing.the program u got my to download for TFTP says it has a DHCP server.I have 4 computers on the lan without the laptop I am trying to fix and the one that has the internet connection has an apache server and an internet share with the rest, so I assume it is the DHCP server if I have one:-S.
But I know I havent set one up.I just want to install xp on a laptop over a lan:'(. Ok, I'll explain exactly what I have to help you help me.lol-A apache server connected to broadband that shares the internet with the rest of the network-3 other computers connected to that with a Switch.-laptop (obviously)-all running windows XP Pro sp2the main 'server' is using windows connection shareness, and all the other computers have dynamic IP's that are from the main servers built in (windows xp DHCP server).theres nothing more to know.just that the TFTP32 DHCP server didnt work, only the one built into windows xp worked so far. As the laptop said there was no DHCP server with that.so is there any way to modify the windows xp DHCP server to point to a boot file? TFTPD32 definitely works. The no boot rom found is probably due to ICS DHCP server.Can you test that tftp is actually working from another PC. (It can be the same PC as the server if you wish) Firstly disable ICS and run up TFTPD32.
(PXE compatable off and pxelinix.0 as the bootfile.)From the cmd prompt. Run the following command.tftp -i GET pxelinux.0If it's working you should see this message.Transfer successful: 13148 bytes in 1 second, 13148 bytes/sIf that works then the problem is either your PXE bios is broken and needs to be updated or one of the TFTPD32 (DHCP) settings isn't right. If possible try with another PXE enabled PC to eliminate possible BIOS issues.Rob. Ok.sigh.done abit of my own work. Hey Rob, btw let me tell you that I check all the posts and it was an amazing job you did here and lot's of patience.At the end I solve my problem removing the hard drive and using a 2.5 - 3.5 hard disk adapter to install DOS on the laptop PC and then install XP using winnt and then upgrade to Windows 7 so I don't need tftp to be working anymore but I was wondering what files were required in order to boot from the net.I try your method using tftp and I was able to get an ip and then connect to the tftp server but when trying net use it didn't work. I think I was missing something on the boot files like the bart image.