Q: I have a laptop that I was still having problems to load Win 2K CD-ROM, so I formatted the disk, copied from the Win2K folder to the station ran out of the I386 WinNT folder.
It worked and everything is good now but it took about 2 hours to load. It went through a process of about two hours before it started the normal OS to load.
1. What was it doing? The only thing I can figure out is how to extract the wax. Files.
2 cabin. Is there a step I missed that this will speed up next time?
Thx
Best Answer: to boot from cd you have to put the cd into the drive! besides, once loaded you no longer boot from cd, so go into setup and change boot from cd to boot from hdd… poof done~
Re:do a search for smartdrv.exe . you can do what bozo said to do with the autoexec.bat/config.sys.. all i did was copy it to my win98 bookdisk and run it manually at the dos prompt.
Re:Hmmm
I tried to run it from the I386 folder but it wasn't in there.
I ran a search here and on the web and couldn't find anything about this. Can anyone give me a link to more detailed instructions?
Thx a lot
Re:There might be a copy of it on the W2K CD – I can't remember. Usually, you use the version that comes with whatever version of DOS you are using to boot. In your config.sys, you need an entry device=himem.sys and in your autoexec.bat, just put a line that says smartdrv or you can just run smartdrv from your DOS prompt.
Re:Yes, it gave me an error and told me to run smart drive but I didn't know how. Can you explain?
Thx
Re:That's about normal since you didn't have smartdrive loaded. (Disk caching)
Load it from a DOS prompt next time before doing the install.
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