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Serious problems with XP installation
LockedHere is my dilemma: I have a Toshiba Portege 3505 tablet pc, it has no internal optical drive. It originally came shipped with an external dvd-rom drive which interfaced via Cardbus slot. However, I am not the original owner and I did not get this external drive when this PC was given to me(it was free!) the hard drive is fried, so I ordered a new one along with a USB external dvd-r drive. I figured I would use this to load XP on the new HDD, but the BIOS(tried every boot sequence combo it offered, its BIOS utility sucks!) doesnt have an option to boot from USB and the system is not recognizing the DVD hardware upon reboot either. So, I had the idea of using another machine of mine to mount a bootable image of XP to the new HDD by interfacing the new HDD to my other machine with a 2.5″ USB enclosure. I tried this and while it sounds good on paper, it is not working in reality. I have never been in a situation like this, so I am not sure of what to do. Not sure how to use Sysprep Utility, someone was telling me I could try to use it?! I just want to be able to run XP setup and have a fresh install of XP on the new HDD for my Tablet PC. Ideas?