Install Window XP from an ISO Image and Firadisk
Sunday, 25 October 2009 | 775 views
A week ago, accidently my Acer laptop has been repartitioned and reformatted before preparing XP installation media. Yes, I have Window XP on CD media, but I don’t want to use it because I made a modified version for my own laptop: an unattended installation with SP3 slipstreamed, recent up-to-date hotfixes, stripped out many services, components, built-in drivers came with original XP installation media to reduce size of my XP, built up with my own laptop drivers, and integrated with recent IE version and Windows Media Player. So, the best choice for me is trying to install Window XP from media I have to make and using Firadisk Driver as I mentioned before.
Firstly, It’s not so easy as I expected. No, maybe that’s happened because I’ve tried another method. For the first time, I didn’t use Firadisk Driver from Floppy Disk while Installing XP, but trying to install it from T-39 Stage. Many files that have been configured and prepared for unattended installation lost from my hard disk several months ago. It’s about 8 GB packed on WIM image and I am being lazy to make a new one or search it again on internet. I don’t expect this method, meanly installing Firadisk driver from T-39 Stage, will be finished successfully, but there is nothing wrong to try. Yes, it’s not success because the installation must be can access drive before it’s begun, while at T-39 Stage Window XP installation executes DetachedProgram from winnt.sif on GUI-mode setup. That is at second reboot of installation.
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