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deepak.hsbc

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Problem with installation
« on: August 18, 2010, 03:43:26 AM »
I have recently installed win7 in my laptop which was having factory installed VIsta.I cleaned VISTA and installed win7 which worked absolutely fine.

I want to keep Win2003 and Win7 together so I am trying to install Win 2003,I have created a bootable USB stick and copied the win2003 setup in that USB to install from command line.

After booting from USB stick,i get C:\ prompt which is actually my USB stick
I ran SMARTDRV.exe for fast copy
I did cd "win2003" which contain setup files
I did cd "I386"
Ran WINNT.exe

Setup process copied everything in around 30 min and start the onscreen installation.

After a while an error pops up saying that there is no enough disk for the install and the reason,setup is trying to install on my USB. It is not giving me any choice to select the existing partition available in my hard drive..Is this something with the driver ? I have no option in my bios to change SATA to ACH or anything.

Any help/suggestion will be a great help.

Thanks
Deepak

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Re: Problem with installation
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2010, 02:36:35 AM »
How large is USB drive?

During installation a swap file is created to assemble the decompressed build and your probably exceeding your thumb drives capacity.