Re: Reinstall win2K HD is ONLY bootable device???

I assume your Laptop has no internal media drives?
That being the case are there any options in the bios to boot from external?

"mike" <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My win2K laptop has become bloated with junk and I want to reinstall it.
Problem is that the Hard drive is the ONLY bootable device.
I can access external CD/floppy/USB drive from within windows2K,
but I can't boot from any of them.
If I just try to install win2k from within 2k, it tells me to reboot
from the CD, which I can't do.
Is there a way to make this work?
Thanks, mike
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