FordGT90Concept
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System Name | BY-2021 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (65w eco profile) |
Motherboard | MSI B550 Gaming Plus |
Cooling | Scythe Mugen (rev 5) |
Memory | 2 x Kingston HyperX DDR4-3200 32 GiB |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
Storage | Samsung 980 Pro, Seagate Exos X20 TB 7200 RPM |
Display(s) | Nixeus NX-EDG274K (3840x2160@144 DP) + Samsung SyncMaster 906BW (1440x900@60 HDMI-DVI) |
Case | Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ USB 3.0 5.25" bay + USB 3.2 (A+C) 3.5" bay |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek ALC1150, Micca OriGen+ |
Power Supply | Enermax Platimax 850w |
Mouse | Nixeus REVEL-X |
Keyboard | Tesoro Excalibur |
Software | Windows 10 Home 64-bit |
Benchmark Scores | Faster than the tortoise; slower than the hare. |
Basically, I have a laptop here that has a fried optical drive. It also can't boot into Vista from the hard disk (hangs on crcdisk). Moreover, the BIOS of this laptop appear to be incapable of booting into a USB CD-ROM drive. As a result, I had to boot into a USB-FDD and use that to gain access to a USB CD-ROM drive and I try to call setup.exe and it says "This program cannot be run in DOS mode."
So now I'm trying to find a way launc the Vista install disk from a DOS command prompt. After a lot of googling, I discovered that officially, the only way to do this is via Windows PE. I'm working on downloading the Window Automated Installation Kit but at this point, I am completely lost. Can Windows PE be started from DOS? Can Windows PE launch the Vista install? Any tips on how to do either or both?
It sounds to me like WAIK requires a working optical drive as well. Is this computer completely screwed without having a new optical drive installed?
So now I'm trying to find a way launc the Vista install disk from a DOS command prompt. After a lot of googling, I discovered that officially, the only way to do this is via Windows PE. I'm working on downloading the Window Automated Installation Kit but at this point, I am completely lost. Can Windows PE be started from DOS? Can Windows PE launch the Vista install? Any tips on how to do either or both?
It sounds to me like WAIK requires a working optical drive as well. Is this computer completely screwed without having a new optical drive installed?