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It has been some time now, but I have installed 98SE from a ZIP drive on a
couple of occasions, It hadn't occurred to me that newer OS versions might
not permit that; I believe I've installed 2K Pro from a hard drive
partition....
David Gillett
On 15 Feb 2005 at 1:06, Richard Glazier wrote:
> I think I read once that Windows will not allow an install
> from a Zip Disk.
> If David was talking about using the Zip Disk to move the install
> files TO the hard drive for a hard drive install, that would be another matter...
>
> Rick Glazier
>
> From: "David Gillett"
> > There are a couple of other options. You may be able to use another
> > machine to copy the CD to a hard drive partition, or a flash drive, or a ZIP
> > disk if you have a suitable drive available, and then redirect to there
> > instead of the CD drive during the install process.
>
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