I have mistakenly formatted windows xp partition of my hardrive while trying to install lubuntu operating system.
Now I can only have access to my computer through the live USB disk of lubuntu.
I have couple of .iso files of windows xp cd.
But when I tried to create bootable USB drive from it, it doesn't work.
It either shows "bootmgr is missing" message or it show a blinking cursor and nothing happens while booting.
The iso's that I have, contain all the necessary installation files required.
Is there a way to make USB drive boot from it?
I tried softwares like rufus but that too doesn't work with iso that I have.
try to google a software called ultraiso, it can create an installation usb using an installation Windows cd or iso, no matter the Windows is xp or 7 or 8 or Windows Server.
If you can't find it in google, try to find it using another search engine such as www.baidu.com
then using the usb, you can install Windows again in your hard drive
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I attempt to install WinXP file on vmware using iso file with all settings below:
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However, when running, the console tells me that Operating System not found
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I also check "connect at power on", reboot the VMware but no effect. Can you tell me what the problem is and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance.
File provided by link in comment is ServicePack 2 for Windows XP - it's not media with operating system. VMware shows truth on console, because it's not operating system, but package with updates for Windows XP. Conclusion: you have to download bootable operating system media.
In addition even if you will find any bootable media you have to remember, that you must pay for license key. Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, but it is not freeware product.
Hi good people,
I'm trying to make a diskless PC client and install the operating system on a SAN Storage. As of now i'm using windows server 2012 R2 and it will serve as my DHCP/WDS and SAN server. So I found a video from yourtube on "Bjørn Jentoft" channel with the title "Hyper-V: Windows installation to ISCSI disk" I followed all the steps and configurations but it didn't quit work for me. But I keep repeating his video to look if I miss something on the configuration steps, but when I checked everything it appears that I didn't miss anything based on what he showed on the video tutorial. By the way he used HYPER-V on his tutorial and I'm using physical machines.
Thank you.
I want to change my operating system from Windows to Ubuntu.
But I don't want to lose my Virtualbox. Does anyone have an idea if this is possible?
Best,
Miriam
You can export your VMs in the OVA/OVF format using VirtualBox (File->Export Appliance, File->Import Appliance). This way you can get a fairly portable VM and back it up on some external hard drive. Then when you replace your host operating system from Windows to Ubuntu, you can import the VMs from the OVA/OVF file back to your Ubuntu host.
I have an external hard drive connected to my computer via USB cable with Linux OS installed on it.
Is there a way that i can run this Linux while using Windows?
Like in virtual machine or something like that?
You can but you'll need to download a good enough emulator not small ones such as Bochs.Then configure the settings of the emulator such that it boots up the USB drive.Let me know which emulator you'd be using and I will help you setup if I know.
Yes you can. You'll need to download Oracle VM VirtualBox and use that. Its very easy to use. Just after you set up the Virtual machine you'll need to tell it to boot from usb.
Is there a way to programmatically install device driver silently without cat file and without connecting the device on Windows Xp?
I'm using DriverPackageInstall function from Windows Driver Kit. And I can install driver only if device is attached. In other case I get an error: ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVINST. But that method works fine with Windows Vista.
Another problem is warning dialog that asks user to continue or stop installation because cat file is missing . It shows on both OSes.
Any ideas?
You're not going to get past the signing prompt, as this is baked pretty far into windows, but there is a tool in the DDK called devinst that works well for device installations.
There's Source Code included with it.
The only way to avoid any UI interaction caused by your driver being unsigned is to hackishly preinstall the driver by modifying the registry directly.
Yes, it can be done. You'd have to modify the ACLs on the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum registry key run as SYSTEM (by installing yourself as a service or using Sysinternals psexec -s), and add all the registry keys which Windows device installation would usually add - on your own. This will only work if you can predict precisely what your device's Device Instance ID would be -- e.g. in case of a USB device, the precise port it'd be connected to etc.
This is hacky, but the result would be the device being essentially "preinstalled". It'll be a lot of work, and it'll break on Windows Vista.
Microsoft really wants you to go the WHQL way on Windows XP, sorry :(