Re: laptop xp install without optical drive

[squirlchatr]

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Hi, I have a dell inspiron 1150 laptop with an updated bios.

Ok I don't have a working dvd and I used wintoflash to try to install
a retail xp to to the drive, but it didn't boot from usb, it just
blinks. (I did set it to boot from usb)

Soo, I am thinking, could I use a virtual drive to install xp onto
another already created partition, with something like
daemontoolslite, from windows2000?

Or from linux.

Maybe a 'network install.

Anyway I also made a customized XP ISO with nlite, maybe be able to
mount that and install?

Thanks for any suggestions

[Twayne[_3_]]

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> Hi, I have a dell inspiron 1150 laptop with an updated bios.
>
> Ok I don't have a working dvd and I used wintoflash to try to install
> a retail xp to to the drive, but it didn't boot from usb, it just
> blinks. (I did set it to boot from usb)
>
> Soo, I am thinking, could I use a virtual drive to install xp onto
> another already created partition, with something like
> daemontoolslite, from windows2000?
>
> Or from linux.
>
> Maybe a 'network install.
>
> Anyway I also made a customized XP ISO with nlite, maybe be able to
> mount that and install?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions

Go to a machine that can handle the job and e-mail yourself an ISO version
of the file. If your ISP won't allow a mail that big, then stage it at a
photobocket or some place similar to retrieve it from. Or get an external
optical drive; they're cheap.

HTH,

Twayne`