Re: installing xp

From: Thomas Wendell (tumppiw_NOSPAM_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 05:39:12 +0300

As Miha Pihler wrote, it's not even possible
"The problem is (depending on external CD connection e.g. PCMCI
card, USB connection or ...) that drivers for this device are only loaded
after Windows start to load, so you can only use it after Windows start." 

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:262de01c4621a$5ecea810$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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