Loading XP on Laptop with no drives
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mikell808
, Dec 05 2006 06:19 AM
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 06:19 AM
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 07:58 AM
...so this computer has absolutely no drives? no cdrom no nothing?
it's going to be extremely difficult to get this done without some form of drive....you'd need an external cdrom drive...and your bios would have to be capable of booting to USB...not all are....you could take the HD out and install from another pc...but that's VERY unlikely to work...because of the way XP handles hardware....it won't transfer to the other system well...if at all...so basically...you'll need a CDROM of some kind on that computer
it's going to be extremely difficult to get this done without some form of drive....you'd need an external cdrom drive...and your bios would have to be capable of booting to USB...not all are....you could take the HD out and install from another pc...but that's VERY unlikely to work...because of the way XP handles hardware....it won't transfer to the other system well...if at all...so basically...you'll need a CDROM of some kind on that computer
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