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No Boot preference in Bios for floopy

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by w.hhutch

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How would one install xp on a laptop with nothing but a USB floopy drive? No internal or external cd rom drive.I have an external floopy but I can't get the laptop to recognize it. When I go into the bios I can't change the boot sequence, I get a supervisory error. It says that all items on menu cannot be modified in user mode. If any items require changes, please consult your Supervisor. I'm the supervisor...

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by shady108

if you havnt got a cd drive to install windows you only really have 2 options -

network boot the laptop and install windows from a RIS image if you have a RIS Server

Or

Install the harddrive into a different computer that has a cddrive then install from there... you will need to remove the display driver, sound driver and any Manufacturers IDE controllers before you swap the drive back though or you will get a blue screen error :)

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