Reply With QuoteSo I managed to get it to come to what looked like the right screen once...but then I had to go to dinner, and I figured, hell I can do it again...
...and I can't
What's the magic button to make this work?
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New M200 and Trouble Installing Windows!
I just recieved my new M200 in the mail yesterday and I am a proud owner!
The ebay seller wiped the drive clean and so, there is no OS on the HD. I have COA and I also have a copy of Windows XP tablet edition.
I've tried using the USB drive install and the SD card install. Neither want to even remotely work. All I ever get is :
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Insert system disk in drive
Press any key when ready.
I've tried this method:
eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
Tried this:
tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?t=35053&page=3
Add w w w. w/o spaces above to see the threads I used..
Neither method even remotely tries to boot. I just keep getting the same 4 lines above. I have messed with the system setup but that never seems to help..
What am I doing wrong..?
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So I managed to get it to come to what looked like the right screen once...but then I had to go to dinner, and I figured, hell I can do it again...
...and I can't
What's the magic button to make this work?
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M200 windows installations
I'm in a similar situation myself, here's what I can help you with:
the lines you've been getting
are from an attempt to network boot that fails.PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Insert system disk in drive
Press any key when ready.
I have successfully network booted using these directions to get a WINPE server that doesn't let see the hard drive:
blog.ryantadams.com/2008/02/01/how-to-boot-from-the-network-pxe-boot-with-tftp-and-windows-pe/
blog.ryantadams.com/2008/05/24/troubleshooting-problems-when-installing-vista-on-a-m200
when trying to install via the setup file following those, i get the install option is grayed out, but with these directions:
blog.ryantadams.com/2008/07/30/option-to-install-windows-is-grayed-out-when-running-network-install
the XP setup GUI can't see the hard drive.
and these directions that get me a successful boot that also fails to see the hard drive:
home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/
the directions you have been using for SD boot are the ones I've been trying tonight, they get me to the first reboot point in XP but I can't get any further...Currently, XP is attempting to install to the A: drive...the temporary drive created by the bootdisk. This is frustrating. I'm thinking of trying the USB flash drive boot you mentioned, I'm thinking that if you can get a USB flash drive to boot you may well be able to get it to boot a USB CD-Rom drive with a few minor tweaks...something to try if this latest attempt fails.
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Neither of those methods are going to work, b/c they are specific to the Toshiba recovery disk.
What you can try doing is if you have a usb enclosure to attach the drive to another machine, start the Windows XP Tablet Installation and at the point where it restarts after copying the files to the disk, move the hard drive back to the m200.
Other than that you need to consider getting one of the following optical drives that are in fact bootable
And you're not going to get a USB Flash drive to be bootable w/ the m200 either its missing the functionality in the BIOS.
Last edited by DRtigerlilly; 08-01-2008 at 12:04 AM.
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I've got to the part when Windows PE is on the M200 but I cannot seem to get the M200 to see the drive. It keeps telling me that it's an incorrect address. So, I'll mess with it tomorrow.Originally Posted by juanasaddiccion
Have you found any other good guides?
The hard drive enclosure is a great tip! I might try that this weekend!
Any other suggestions for trying to fix this problem?
Thanks for all the helpful answers.
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This was the first method I tried, and I've tried it again. When I install the setup files and switch the drive to my laptop, it gives me a blank screen. BIOS recognizes the hard drive, but the setup procedure doesn't continue.What you can try doing is if you have a usb enclosure to attach the drive to another machine, start the Windows XP Tablet Installation and at the point where it restarts after copying the files to the disk, move the hard drive back to the m200.
I have also fully installed XP onto the drive using a different computer and got the same thing...It loads when I run it on the enclosure, but when I move it to my M200 it doesn't load at all.
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I vaguely remember trying to install on the m200 xp via dos from the sd card, but don't remember the exact procedure.
I remember that the hd has to be formatted as FAT not NTFS and then it will later change it to ntfs..I vaguely also remember something to do w/ DOS and memory and something that had to be loaded before xp would load into memory, will research and post back.
It's been a while....and i no longer have my m200.
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Ok Things you are going to need to do:
Format the drive in FAT, make a partition of about 900MB and copy the XP Tablet Installation Files to it, make sure to copy everything from both disks, for the second disk, just copy the CMPNENTS folder. (Do this from your secondary computer & then put it back into the m200)
You are going to need to make a dos boot disk, use a win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) but the individual files have to be compressed to the $tosfd00.vfd file to be used on the sd card.
Use winrar to extract the win98 boot files and then you're going to need a program like winimage to make a .img file w/ the contents of the boot disk, and then rename it to $tosfd00.vfd
When you boot to the sd card, and start into dos, @ the prompt type smartdrv.exe
Then browse to the partition where you have copied the XP files and type
D:\i386\winnt.exe where D:\ is the partition with the setup files.
Setup should continue though and you should have you installation.
Also I read the method you posted w/ the sd card should work, it pretty much sounds like the same procedure i'm outlining, just that he's done the step for you w/ the boot disk, and that the files are copied to the sd card instead of having the files copied to the hard drive.
Try his method again first. To boot to the sd card, at the post screen move the arrow keys to get you to the icon of the sd card.
Once you get to the dos prompt run fdisk & make sure that there are no other partitions present and that the hard drive is set to active. Then follow dosada's instructions.
Last edited by DRtigerlilly; 08-01-2008 at 12:00 PM.
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I'll give it one more go around. Every time I've done the SD card boot XP installation doesn't continue after the reboot.
I wish I could just extract everything I'm missing from the clone I made of the disk with the bad MFT. (tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?t=35881)
I'll reformat into a FAT32 partition and try again.
thanks again for the help!
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Hello juanasaddiccion,
You really have to format a part of youre hardrive as fat/fat16 not fat32 as DRtigerlilly wrote. If you use fat32 the windows installation cant copy the installation files to the harddrive. When i only formatted my harddrive to fat32 only it copied the installation files to my sd because i did have my sd card formatted as fat/fat16. If you dont have any fat partitions it cant detect any harddrive to install on. You can only format it as fat/fat16 if the partition is smaller than 2 Gb i thought.
I hope this helped you a bit.
Last edited by Heliuz; 08-02-2008 at 08:27 AM.
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