witchy
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A mate has fallen out with his wife and she's locked him out of his netbook by setting an admin account and is refusing to tell him the password.
The machine is a HP Compaq 1100 running XP and it has no dvd drive, the machine also does not boot from USB.
That leaves me with a LAN install.
Anyway, God knows how but I managed to get it working by setting up a TFTP server on my own Win7 machine hosting bootpxe.com and it worked, so now his laptop is showing a command prompt...woohoo!
Problem now is that although I've enabled sharing on my Win7 machine to allow full access to my DVD drive (which contains the install disc for WinXP) the XP machine cannot see it.
I'm trying to connect with this command..
Net Use e: //192.168.1.5/cd
which gives me "windows cannot find the network path - Error 51"
*192.168.1.5 is the correct IP of my PC
*cd is the name I've given the share.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
The machine is a HP Compaq 1100 running XP and it has no dvd drive, the machine also does not boot from USB.
That leaves me with a LAN install.
Anyway, God knows how but I managed to get it working by setting up a TFTP server on my own Win7 machine hosting bootpxe.com and it worked, so now his laptop is showing a command prompt...woohoo!
Problem now is that although I've enabled sharing on my Win7 machine to allow full access to my DVD drive (which contains the install disc for WinXP) the XP machine cannot see it.
I'm trying to connect with this command..
Net Use e: //192.168.1.5/cd
which gives me "windows cannot find the network path - Error 51"
*192.168.1.5 is the correct IP of my PC
*cd is the name I've given the share.
Can anyone shed any light on this?