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I wanted to know if there was a way to install Windows XP on a old Pentium 4 (Intel motherboard) system which does not boot via USB and CD/DVD drive?
Is it possible to connect the hard disk to my laptop and install Windows XP Pro on it using VMware (replicating the Pentium 4 motherboard conditions)? or is there any other way anyone knows about?
But when I try to boot from USB it gives me a "j and blinking cursor" and the CD/DVD doesn't show in the BIOS.
A friend tried to clone my Windows XP partition in the laptop to the Pentium 4 pc hard disk using paragon option "clone partition" it gives a different error.
"/ntldr" error code 0xc000000e
Please let me know a solution Many thanks.
With windows XP you can dump the installs to the hard drive and start the setup from command line. You can search about it and its not very easy either.You can also network deploy.. but not easy either. You gonna have to get a cdrom in there somehow dude.. its the easiest way. – Piotr Kula – 2012-07-31T14:46:37.370
Oh! One way to fool windows. Start the install on another syttem then after first or second reboot (before driver detection) put it back into the P4 with out cdrom.. it should install as normal.. but it is 50 / 50- make sure to plug it in the same ide slot though! if its IDE Master 0 then the other system must also be IDE Master 0 – Piotr Kula – 2012-07-31T14:48:33.687
I've had literally a hundred of them, and I never seen a P4 motherboard that doesn't boot from CD. Look at the BIOS settings and put the CDROM on the right IDE connector (see your manual) – Axeman – 2012-07-31T15:31:41.760