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by changchosantos

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I need to repair my win xp because of an ntdetect failure. however, my built in cd rom is not working and i need to boot from a usb external hard drive. is this possible? and if it is, how do i go about it?

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by Former member

Go into your "bios", boot your computer and hold down the "F1" or "DEL" or the key that relates to your "bios", you will need to look at the lower part of your screen to see this. When in your bios look for the "BOOT" option and have a look for your external drive, if listed make it as "First boot", then reboot your computer. If it still will not boot from your external drive then you will have to buy another internal CD/DVD drive to access your windows disk.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

by changchosantos

I tried the first option but it won't recognize the external drive. it's not in the options. I will have to try your other option. I will revert.

Thank you.

by tushar.k

hello my freind you have usb external cd,dvd ROM so you would like to boot from external usb rom & install repair windows xp

by changchosantos

yes, that's right. but my lap top does not have a boot option for external drive. can you help?

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