Install Windows 98 From Hard Drive

[Shantelle Wenske]

Ineed to install fresh windows 10 on my HDD already containing important data (and unfortunately it's all stored on one partition). What's more, all I can work with is pendrive with windows installation tool, as my ssd died and I'm nowhere near any other computer. I've been given advice to try to shrink current partition using diskpart/shrink and then create partition from newly form unallocated space, but I'm not sure if my data won't get corrupted in the process. Please advise best course of action.

Like older versions of Windows, if you choose to do a 'custom installation' i.e. install Windows from fresh, choosing the same partition as the old Windows, you should get a prompt telling you that the old files will be kept in a folder called Windows.old, provided there's enough space for the old and new Windows on that partition. You can then browse it when setup is finished and recover whatever you need.

It's certainly worth uninstalling as much stuff as possible before doing this, so there's less space wasted when it's moved to the new location. You should also make sure you aren't using NTFS encryption for any of your documents because the new user will have a new private key.

If Windows is already running, you can effectively use Windows 10 Repair Install. Use the option to keep only Data to get a fresh install and keep your data. Works fine and I have done it numerous times

Windows 10 is running, so click on the Download button (not Upgrade Button, select Save.Create a USB Windows Installation key and then run Setup on the USB Key. This will launch the Repair and proceed normally.

Currently I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on one hard drive, and I'd like to install Windows onto a second hard drive. I've read that I need to boot into a LiveCD, usually I'd use my memory stick for this, but I need to use it to install Windows with. Unfortunately I don't have a second memory stick big enough to have the Windows installer on it. Can I still install Windows alongside Ubuntu without the need for an Ubuntu LiveCD? Can someone guide me through this so I don't mess anything up?

My old HDD had a Short DST check error so I had to replace to a new one, which I did 'replace' it with a new Seagate Momentus Thin 500 GB SATA HDD. I've booted it using a bootable USB however when I try to install it my new drive won't show and it gives a popup saying "No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains correct drivers...". I have done a Short DST check AND a Long DST check which both came back successful. I've done some research and it seems you have to download a SATA Controller Driver? If that's the case how do I find a link to download it? How do I find what brand/vendor/manufactor it is?

What I suggest you do is to use the HP cloud recovery tool, that will create a bootable USB recovery drive that you can use to reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with your PC.

Thanks but the drivers seem to not go through on the installation page where you have to select drivers. Also note that my bootable USB is created from a Windows 10 (64) ISO (2004), do I have to create it using something else?

Thanks, but before I do that I would just like to know if there is any commands I can run on WinRE command prompt to make it (the Win10 installation) part recognize my drive? Otherwise I will try to download the latest ISO and extract it to my bootable USB.

I need help with installing Windows 11 on a hard drive. I'm not sure about the precise steps necessary for installing the operating system on the new hard drive. Is the process different from previous versions?

If so, I would appreciate an outline of the new steps required. I hope somebody can provide advice on how to complete this process successfully. If there are any potential issues or problems I need to watch out for.

Restart your computer and enter the BIOS/UEFI settings. This usually involves pressing a key like F2, F12, Delete, or Esc immediately after powering on the computer. The specific key depends on your motherboard manufacturer and is usually displayed on the initial screen when you turn on your computer.

In the BIOS/UEFI settings, find the boot order menu and set the USB drive as the primary boot device. Save the changes and exit the BIOS/UEFI settings. Your computer will restart and boot from the USB drive.

I once needed to install Windows 11 on external hard drive and chose to use the system image recovery method because I happened to have a newer system backup on hand. I used a third-party backup software, which is great and can directly restore the entire system image to any new hard drive.

It is also very simple to operate. First, I made sure that the new hard drive was connected and recognized by the system, then launched the backup software, selected the system image file I created earlier, and then specified the recovery to the new hard drive. The whole process took less than an hour and was as simple as copying files.

After the recovery, I restarted the computer and Windows 11 on external hard drive started smoothly with all the programs and settings exactly as the original system, which saved me a lot of trouble in reconfiguring and installing applications.

I previously installed Windows 11 on a new pc using the cloning method, and the whole process was simple and quick. I used Clonezilla, a very powerful free cloning tool that is particularly suitable for data migration of entire hard drives.

First, I made sure that both the old and new hard drives were connected to the computer and recognized by the system. Then, I downloaded the cloning software from Clonezilla's website and made a bootable USB. This step is important because you need to boot the computer from this USB to run the cloning program.

Once booted up, Clonezilla's interface is relatively basic, but it is still very intuitive to follow the prompts. I chose the "disk_to_disk" cloning option, which means copying directly from one hard drive to another. Next, the system asks you to select the source hard drive (the old hard drive) and the target hard drive (the new hard drive). After confirming that they are correct, the cloning process began.

The entire cloning process depends on the amount of data, and I didn't have a lot of data, so it took about an hour. After the cloning was completed, I removed the old hard drive and started the computer to check whether the new hard drive was running properly. Everything worked just like the original system, which was very smooth.

As far as I understood you, you want to replace an Ubuntu Linux installation by Windows 10. As others have already proposed, it is recommended to remove the partition table with its partition scheme first. You may also create an empty partition table and then let the Windows installer create the needed partitions for a Windows 10 installation and your undisclosed system firmware boot mode.

So you want to use a MBR partitioning scheme as UEFI with GPT partitioning scheme would need several partitions and NTFS may not be used for the EFI partition. But the OP did not pronounce such preferences.

If your internal hard drive is not showing up, it might be because it is not initialized or it needs formatting. Ensure your disk is properly connected to the motherboard with the SATA cable. Due to some BIOS settings, your HDD might also not be visible in Windows 10.

In order to install Windows onto the expansion card, it is necessary to manually create the required partitions, then copy the Windows image over manually. This manual process is entirely accomplished from within the Windows installer itself, by dropping into a command prompt rather than installing graphically as usual.

Once booted into the Windows installer, proceed page by page until you have accepted the license agreement, then on the next page hit Shift+F10 to open a command prompt.

From this point on, ignore the graphical installer, everything will be done manually via the command prompt.

In my case, running Debian Bullseye on my internal drive, I ran the sudo update-grub command and it automatically generated a grub boot menu entry for the Windows Boot Manager. This allows for choosing which OS to boot without having to manually override using the F12 key.

So from the sound of it, if you were to install Windows 10 Pro with /Apply-Image above and then leave this as /index 1, if you were to eventually restore your OS via the recovery partition you would have your install changed to Windows 10 Home

You can then boot back into the Windows installer, repeat the assign letter="" commands from Partition the disk (it seems to forget a few of the letters when you exit the installer), then continue to Copy Windows data to the newly created partitions.

The only difference now is that instead of copying install.esd from X:\sources\ you copy it from your primary Windows partition - in the guide this is W:\ but for me it was C:\. After that I was able to follow the rest of the steps without any hiccups.

And that was it! After Rufus was done, I unplugged my storage card from the other machine and put it back in my framework laptop. I turned it on, spammed f12, selected the storage card as my boot media, and voila: I was in Windows.

Not having made a recovery thumb drive, I don't know what else to do except replace the hard drive. For all I know the hard drive might be fried so I'm iffy about buying an erecovery drive on the chance that it will resurrect it.

Media is available from Microsoft but inless you retrieved and saved the keys (use a third party tool such as from Nirsoft or may be on a sticker on the bottom) or was saved for you in the Microsoft account, you may need to purchase a new license.

Thank you for responding. Not clear though how I create a flash drive for Windows 10 installation when the computer cannot be booted up? Is this Windows 10 install something I can create using another computer? Anything that has to be made from the dead computer isn't an option for me.

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