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. > > PCBUILD's List Owners: > Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> > Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com