Indecisive over XP Tablet Edition or Windows FLP

[NxB]

Re: Indecisive over XP Tablet Edition or Windows FLP

Again. no-go.

Why no go? What did it say? This method should work.

[acstech]

Re: Indecisive over XP Tablet Edition or Windows FLP

Again. no-go.

I got one last idea that hit me the other night.
The IDE controller in the thing accepts two drives (master/slave) and if I'm right, the laptop IDE connector is just the regular IDE/ATA interface in a PC, just smaller and with power running over several pins.
If I rig up a ribbon cable so I can connect thwe hard drive AND a regular PC grade cd drive running off an external power source, since the BIOS will allow booting from an CD drive I should in theory pop the disc in and it will start the install as it normally should in a PC.

Anyone care to confirm this?

I think they sell converters to do that.

The idea I had was to first plug the drive into a Linux based computer. Use it to prepare the drive. I have no idea if this will work, but... Here's how I would do it:

1. Remove all partitions. Use gparted or something similar.
2. Clone the installation cd to the drive. Open a terminal, find out the device name of your CD and the target drive. Be very careful so as to not over-write that computers main HD! Use fdisk -l to list the drives. Make sure both drives are unmounted before you start. So the command to clone the disk to the HD would be something like "dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc,noerror" without the quotes, and substituting your drives in. You'll probably want to be root to do this, and it will take a while.
3. That should boot the installation from the HD when the HD is returned to the tablet.

Again I haven't tried this.