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Installing windows xp

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by coolking4

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I have this laptop that doesnt have a floppy and the cd-rom doesnt work. To make thing worse my laptop doesnt support booting from a usb device. i can however plug the hdd to another pc via usb. Any ideas what i can do to install windows xp?

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by wade.learmonth

You can install xp with another machine but i think somewhere the drivers will be stuffed up.

So try installing xp on a pc then transfer the hdd back to the laptop and try reinstalling the drivers when on your laptop.

Well hope i helped

by older mycroft

Access the optical drive on the networked computer and use it to install onto the laptop.

Failing that, have you considered buying a cd-rom?

by six.days.condor

Sorry I guess this is a newbie question, but how do you access the drive (or connect the laptop to the network) when there is no operating system on it?

by older mycroft

Therefore I assumed the OP wanted to do a new install over the top of whatever was already there. ;)

[i][b]But thanks for asking after 18 months![/i][/b]

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