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by chirag4u4ever

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Hi guys,
I have an acer aspire 1694 laptop and i installed vista after that my dvd drive has stopped working and i think its a hardware issue. recently i inserted one dvd and its stuck in there and its not reading as well. i need to format my laptop and install windows xp in there, is there any way to format the laptop without dvd drive and i dont have external dvd drive or floppy drive in my laptop. but in my CMOS it shows a option to boot from floppy drive, even though my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. is it possible to boot a loptop via external floppy or dvd drive...

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by al.damyanov

Try to check first which option for boot your laptop support. Good idea is to boot from USB Flash memory if supported from your computer. Otherwise all other variant is possible you may boot from external floppy or CD connected through PCMCIA card. You can have direct access to MB resources for this procedure. USB floppy or CD doesn't support boot options. Last way is to detach you HDD and connect to other computer with working periphery to format.

But my thing is that first to check is your DVD work with trying too boot different OS. If it work try to format your HDD and install what you wish.

by triathlete1981

stuck in there?

on my laptop, there's a tiny hole that only a paper clip (or something similarly small) will fit into to forcefully eject the disc.

otherwise, yeah, you can change the boot sequence. you could also use an external dvd drive to boot with an xp cd, just need to again change the sequence.

by chirag4u4ever

hi, thanks for the reply, nut how do i find out if my laptop supports booting from flash memory, and sorry but i dont hve any clue abt PCMCIA card and no clue abt MB resources. Please can u explain a bit more on tht topic. i m not very computer literate...i did checked mt dvd drive and i m sure its a hardware issue. my laptop shows option of booting by floppy drive but it doesnt have any slot for floppy drive.thanks

by triathlete1981

bios and check if there's an option in the boot sequence for a flash drive. if not, when you've booted normally (bypassing bios look-see), add an external usb floppy to create an a. bios should recognize that on your next boot as a valid floppy drive.

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