Re: Installing WinXP from Hard-Disk???

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"Mark" wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I have a laptop and I need to install Windows XP Pro SP2 on it, but the
| CD-ROM drive is broken so I can't install Windows from CD. Is there another
| way to do it?
|
| thanks,
|
| Mark.
.

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