Re: installing xp
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Date: 07/04/04
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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:58:07 -0700
sorry i should have been crearer, the internal cdrom drive
dosnt work, and i cant boot from the external drive i
have. i am trying to rest my laptop with the reset disc
supplied. as the built in rom drive if faulty i cant use
it to boot from the reset cd. the external usb rom dosent
appear in the bios, and i cant boot the reset cd from the
external drive. how can i get it to boot from the external
drive? do i need a different lead? or is it even posable?
>-----Original Message-----
>Ben I don't quite understand what you are asking. As I
read your post you
>seem to say that the CD drive is busted on the laptop and
you can't use the
>external drive. If that is so then how will you be able
to use the XP CD
>from your Desktop PC? You have no CD-Rom support on your
laptop.
>
>Does the laptop have a floppy drive? If so use it to load
the drivers for a
>external USB CD-Rom device. Plato's site might be able to
help you with this
>http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
>--
>
>Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
>www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>
>
>"Ben" <jammin2222@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:2615f01c461de$19ba99f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>i have a laptop running xp, the internal cd drive is
>> busted and i want to reset the laptop, i have an
external
>> cd drive but it wont boot the rest disc from it. i was
>> wondering if the xp cd from my other desktop pc would
work?
>> i can only use the external drive while windows is
running.
>> any ideas? thanks, Ben
>
>
>.
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