Re: installing xp

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

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:22:30 +0300

No, sorry. It IS possible by going the floppy way.... 

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"Harry Ohrn" <harry---@webtree.ca> kirjoitti viestissä
news:uuvuzSlYEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Did you read the second part of my post?
>
> -- 
>
> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>
>
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> 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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