Re: rinstall windows xp

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mido1971 wrote:
hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home installed, the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the usb to boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery cd to boot from.


any help or idea

thanks in advance
That's why it's critical to image your drive the first time you turn it on.
Then, you can always pull the drive and put back the OS using another computer. If you know someone with a similar computer, you might
be able to clone their drive, then figure out how to get the sw activated by M$. With the right image, you should be able to restore
the image in any computer...as long as you don't try to boot it before
you put the drive back into your laptop.
I've found XP to be very forgiving of hardware changes. Hardware re-detection is very good...it's the ACTIVATION that trips it up.
If it boots, you have the option to replace the license key and
the *.dbl stuff. If you don't get lucky, you can always call
the mothership for phone activation. Often it just won't boot at all...
reinstall windows...sorry for the inconvenience.

Don't forget to check if there is a BIOS update that will let you boot from an external CD.

Back in the days of win2k and earlier, you could put the drive in another system, partition it into two pieces. Copy the win2k install cd
to partition 2, install win98, but don't run it.
Put the drive back into the laptop, let it finish installing then install
win2k in place. Talk about inconvenience...that was the best option
I could come up with at the time.

There are programs to let you boot from a floppy drive to run a bootable
linux CD when your computer doesn't support booting from CD.
Wonder if that technique could be used?

I've asked the question several times in different newsgroups. Nobody
has been willing to give me any clues on how to install XP without a CD
drive...sorry for any inconvenience...
It's very easy to dismiss you with, "go buy a new CD drive" when it's not their money.


If you find a way to do it, please publish the result here.
Good luck in your quest.

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