I have a laptop that has windows 2000 on it and I would rather have windows xp on it. It is a docking station system, and I dont have the docking system, so there is no cd rom and no floppy drive. I have already found one hopeful way to get this installed. I plan on buying a 2.5" to 3.5" laptop harddrive converter and installing the drive into my pc. From there I can do some formatting of the drive, and place the i386 folder from the xp setup disk onto the newly partitioned drive as well as a win98SE boot partition so that when the system loads up I get a command prompt. Next I would install the drive back into the laptop. From there I should be able to run winnt.ext and go through an install. If I am lucky I can get it to completely setup windows xp fresh this way. But incase that doesn't work, what I am wondering is, would be anyway to install xp on this drive while it is hooked up my desktop, and have Windows Xp installed without it detecting or installing drivers. Because if that happens I will have my desktop drivers on it. Is there a way to install Windows XP OS only. That way if I can do this I can install just the os, power down the desk, place the drive back in the laptop, startup the laptop and it should then start xp install the drivers while it is hooked up to the laptop so that there are no driver issues? Is there any possible way to go about this?

Desi

Hi desiverity, welcome to SAF

Don't you have a LAN card on your Laptop ? I think it's a cheaper and most secure way to upgrade your system. If you can plug it to another computer, you can run the Windows upgrade from a shared CD.

There are also some communication softwares that can connect you with other PC by using the serial or usb ports. Not sure if this will work to install Win XP because you'll need space to copy the installer

Maybe other members can help on this...