So … my mother was uning a old windows 2000 and had been doing it since it was installed, only a few thing updated in the time and now problems what so ever with it. I keep using “If it aint broken dont update it”.
But the bank she's been using so supporting Windows 2000, the other day, so I kind a have to update the operating system now … :-(
But the computer she got don’t have a DVD drive so what to do …
Boot from a USB media, what the first option I came across, but while not sure the hardware support it, I opened my favorite seach page … google of cause and found Kevin’s blog. For reference there is a copy of Kevin steps below.
Witch looked really simple … so I started with that.
So … now I’m installing from a USB Media … awesome.
Problems I ran into:
Graphics card: Asus 7100 Pro aka GeForce2 MX 400, Windows 7 did not have a driver and I could not find one on nvidia.com so I went to google again and found this: Windows 7 and Geforce2 GTS. The file has been attached to the post. Seems to run great, and now I can run more than: 1024x768, YAHHH. Forceware 71.89 working under Win7.ZIP (18.76 mb)
Kevin’s steps: taken from Kevin’s blog post
Required:
- USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
- Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
- A computer running Vista / Windows 7
Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]
- Plug in your USB Flash Drive
- Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
- Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
diskpart
list disk
The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step. I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
- Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS
assign
exit
When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.
Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:
- Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
- Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot
- Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
bootsect /nt60 g:
- You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here.
Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive. After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.
Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB
This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.
Forceware 71.89 working under Win7.ZIP (18.76 mb)
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