First post, by emosun
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I have a packard bell multimedia L190 here's my issue
I've been trying to install windows 2000/xp and it's a nightmare with this board for some reason. (YES I know the machines specs is suited for 9x) The xp/2000 disks give me a "cannot boot from cd code 4" error when it tried to boot from them. Through research I've have concluded it is because the disk either has no floppy emulation , or it has floppy emulation. aparently on old machines where booting from a cd was a new thing have this issue.
So i tried installing xp by using a different computer to initially install the files on the drive , and then moving the drive over to the packard bell to continue the setup , but again it won't boot the drive.
I then tried to install windows 98 so I could run the setup from within windows , but the 98 installation just freezes when It reaches the "start menu items" stage.
I then tried to copy the original 2gb windows 98 hard drive the computer came with , with disk copy software. So I could boot into it's original os on a new drive and from there install xp/2000. But again it refuses to boot the copied drive.
I then tried to boot puppy linux from a cd but it also doesn't want to boot that either. It makes it past the section asking about what mouse I'm using then has an error.
So right now the only thing the board will boot to is the original 2gb hard drive it came with , with windows 98 on it. I DO NOT want to loose this drive because it's the only thing that works. I need a way to either
A: Copy the original hard drive to a new drive so the machine will boot into windows 98 on a new drive and I can install windows xp/2000 from there , the original drive will run the xp setup if I start it in windows , but I don't want to overwrite the drive.
B: Find a way for the machine to boot the xp/2000 disks because of the "floppy emulation" related problem it seems to have. maybe some form of a boot loader or dos can be booted first?