Re: Problems encountered during XP installation in X61s

The optical drive is USB. When booting from it, BIOS handles it, but when you reboot during installation, drivers for the USB ports may be needed (to access the USB optical drive) that XP's setup program may not have.

Better way to do this: Copy the XP setup folder (I386) to the hard drive, then do the entire installation from the hard drive, not using the optical drive at all. You can boot into the "recovery console" to do the copying of the I386 folder to the hard drive.


lovecd wrote:
I got my X61s with vista basic, and I want to replace vista with XP pro.
What I did are: 1. Connect it with an external DVD rom through USB port.
2. Login to BIOS setup and change the harddrive to compatibility mode.
3. Boot from external DVD drive with XP pro CD software
4. Get the C drive formated and start loading XP files.

So far so good until this step, however,

5. After the startup files were loaded, the system is rebooting and
installation is continued.
6. When the system rebooted for the next step installation, it can not
find the required files from CD software disc, it prompts me to input
the path, it looks like it doesn't know what the drive letter for this
external dvd drive, I tried a:, d:, e:, etc. none of them works. and the
installation can not be continued. This is so weird to me. Anybody
encounter this problem before and know how to get it through?

I appreciate your advise and help.

Thanks!


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