(Msg. 9) Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:23 pm
Post subject: Re: Vista Clean Install WITHOUT DVD drive?????? Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>installation_setup (more info?)
On Thu, 08 May 2008 05:01:48 -0500, Nonny <nonnymoose.DeleteThis@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:44:50 +0100, "Dominic Payer"
><dominic.DeleteThis@dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In your motherboard BIOS, set one of the DVD drives to be the bootable
>>optical drive and then use that drive to install Vista.
>
>He clearly stated that the computer that he needs to install SP1 on
>doesn't HAVE a DVD drive.
Which makes me wonder how he copied the Vista installation media to a
secondary partition.
In any case, his information is very strange. On the one hand, he
claims to have no bootable DVD drives.
If this is so, his computer is NOT compatible with Vista.
He needs to install it on a computer which is.
On the other, he claims to have DVD drives, but no BOOTABLE ones.
His ONLY solution is to:
1) Buy a motherboard which allows him to set a DVD drive as the first
bootable block device.
2) Buy a DVD drive which is bootable.
Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the correct thread and article.
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:59 pm
Post subject: Re: Vista Clean Install WITHOUT DVD drive?????? Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
I picked up the Vista Ultimate DVD at the "Heroes" seminar.
I'm trying to intstall it on my test machine.
The machine has no DVD drive.
I tried copying the DVD contents to a secondary partition,
but I can't find any .exe files that will run from a dos boot.
Is there any way to get Vista install started without a
bootable DVD drive?
I do have a CD drive on the machine...can I split the DVD into CD's?
Anticipating the most likely input...let me say these...
Yes, I have googled my ass off.
Yes, I have IDE DVD drives, I have external usb DVD drives.
What I DO NOT HAVE is a way to get THIS machine to BOOT from
any of them. Buying a new DVD drive won't help me.
I can boot from a CD or floppy or hard drive.
I want to do a CLEAN build without leftovers from previous OS.
Yes, you can order Vista on CD if you want to wait...and they
won't even tell you what it costs until you enter personal
information...sorry, but that really chaps my...
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:39 pm
Post subject: Re: Vista Clean Install WITHOUT DVD drive?????? Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Thank you very much for reading the original post.
It's amazing how far a thread can get off track and
how emotional people get about it.
I come to uesnet for imatinative approaches to solve
problems. Mostly what I get is "impossible, can't be done."
"Your an idiot!", is a popular helpful suggestion.
Took me a weekend of trial/error to figger it out,
but here's how I accomplished
it using free tools. Maybe others can benefit from the experience.
YMMV
It worked for me.
Install the trial vista on a machine with a DVD.
Boot the Acronis 7 CD and image the drive to a
usb hard drive.
On the target machine, boot the Acronis 7 CD.
Restore the image from the USB hard drive.
The target system won't boot, but there exists a bootable
CD that runs the Vista recovery environment; boot it.
It automagically figgers out how to make the system bootable.
Boot vista and let it reconfigure all the hardware/drivers.
I have zero Vista experience, so I can't tell if everything is
working, but it seems OK so far.
Acronis 7 plus the Recovery CD may well be the solution to the
backup/restore problem too.
I have no idea if there are any activation issues.
So far, I've learned that Vista breaks much of my software.
It breaks much of my hardware.
It takes up 3X the drive space (of 2K).
It appears to offer NO improvement in anything I need.
Whether or not it activates may be a non-issue...
mike
AJR wrote:
> Come on guys - read his "entire" post.
>
> Quote "..The machine has no DVD drive...." - then further on "...get Vista
> install started without a bootable DVD drive?...". By "no DVD drive" he
> evidently means he cannot boot from the drive.
>
> Further along is his post "...Yes, I have IDE DVD drives, I have external
> usb DVD drives...." and "...I DO NOT HAVE is a way to get THIS machine to
> BOOT from any of them..." - note no reference to a second computer.
>
> Simply put - no boot from the DVD - reply by Dominic only sensitble
> suggestion.
>
>
>
> "mike" <spamme9.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:CwyUj.22099$aA1.9774@trnddc05...
>> I picked up the Vista Ultimate DVD at the "Heroes" seminar.
>> I'm trying to intstall it on my test machine.
>> The machine has no DVD drive.
>> I tried copying the DVD contents to a secondary partition,
>> but I can't find any .exe files that will run from a dos boot.
>> Is there any way to get Vista install started without a
>> bootable DVD drive?
>> I do have a CD drive on the machine...can I split the DVD into CD's?
>>
>> Anticipating the most likely input...let me say these...
>> Yes, I have googled my ass off.
>> Yes, I have IDE DVD drives, I have external usb DVD drives.
>> What I DO NOT HAVE is a way to get THIS machine to BOOT from
>> any of them. Buying a new DVD drive won't help me.
>> I can boot from a CD or floppy or hard drive.
>> I want to do a CLEAN build without leftovers from previous OS.
>> Yes, you can order Vista on CD if you want to wait...and they
>> won't even tell you what it costs until you enter personal
>> information...sorry, but that really chaps my...
>> --
>> Return address is VALID!
>
>
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