Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD.

I'm doing a clean install of windows xp C:\i386 professional.  I can't work around the error above.

Assuming that the file is good:

  1. Mount the drive in another computer Windows XP.
  2. Move the folder i386 on the disk.
  3. Format the drive FAT32
  4. Bring the i386 on the disk file.
  5. Start the computer with a Windows 98 boot CD
  6. Run \i386\Winnt.exe
  7. Once Windows is installed, you can convert the FAT32 to NTFS drive.

Windows XP not reformatted partitions greater than 32 GB in FAT32, you can keep the score at this size or less. If you want a partition larger than 32 GB, you can use the Windows 98 boot cd to prepare the drive and format it FAT32.

Fdisk can choke on the logical drives NTFS tools as Delpart.exe can cope with this, or you can use the Windows XP disk management tool to remove the partitions on the drive before using the Fdisk and W98 startup disk.

To start the disk management tool type diskmgmt.msc in the box run from the start menu.  Windows XP cannot format disks over 32 GB FAT32, but it can ride greater than 32 GB FAT32 drives which have been prepared by other operating systems.

These will be useful:
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315349
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307848/en-us

You can get a CD to start Windows 98 .iso image here: http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html

Download the Windows 98SE you without a RAMDrive (Win98SEnoram_bootdisk.iso) it has no Smartdrv and without it, it will take Winnt forever to copy files.

Make sure that you have the Windows XP product key before do you all this!  Without the key, you will not be able to install Windows.  The key can be extracted from the registry if necessary.

John

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