How to quickly install Windows XP in DOS
A few days ago, my friend asked me when I installed Windows XP, format the machine, and entered the DOS environment with the boot disk.
Installing Windows XP speed is very slow, ask me what is going on, when I ask him to run smartdrv.exe
There is no, the friend looks at me very quietly, I don't know what I am talking about.
Smartdrv.exe files can simulate a part of memory into disk buffers to speed up files.
So when installing Windows XP under DOS, first run the smartdrv.exe file can greatly improve the text.
Copy speed of the pieces. One thing to explain is that this program uses extended memory, so running
Himem.sys must also be loaded in advance.
How to do it? First, create "Add / Remove Programs" in the Windows 98 Control Panel
A starter disk. Then look for "himem.sys" under the C drive, copy it to the boot disk. On
Add a text file on the movable disk, add such: Device = Himem.sys, save and save the file
Rename it is config.sys. Then find the smartdrv.exe file in the Windows 98 installation directory.
Copy it to the boot disk.
Next, start the computer with the created boot disk, enter "SmartDRV after the prompt"
C 20480 ", then carriage return (prompt: where parameter" C "indicates the virtual buffer to
Hard disk C drive, you can set the installation location of Windows XP according to your own requirements; "20480"
The size of the virtual buffer is in KB, which is generally about 1/3 of the physical memory size). Now
With installation, put Windows XP installation CD into the CD-ROM drive, here, if the drive of the optical drive
Is a F disk, then we change the driver to the i386 directory of the F disc, enter "Winnt" and enter the bus,
The Windows XP trip is started!
