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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external
drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
BlogTrotter wrote:
The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter You can use the external DVD/CD drive. Alias |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
Alias wrote:
BlogTrotter wrote: The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter You can use the external DVD/CD drive. Alias I have a similar problem with an old Fujitsu Lifebook. Windows can read the external CD but cannot boot from it. Can I install XP without booting from the CD? Thanks,mike |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
"spamme0" wrote: Alias wrote: BlogTrotter wrote: The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter You can use the external DVD/CD drive. Alias I have a similar problem with an old Fujitsu Lifebook. Windows can read the external CD but cannot boot from it. Can I install XP without booting from the CD? Thanks,mike Thanks Alias and Mike. Mike your are correct the problem is that the laptop cannot boot from the external DVD/CD drive. There must be some other method? Thanks, BlogTrotter |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
BlogTrotter wrote:
"spamme0" wrote: Alias wrote: BlogTrotter wrote: The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter You can use the external DVD/CD drive. Alias I have a similar problem with an old Fujitsu Lifebook. Windows can read the external CD but cannot boot from it. Can I install XP without booting from the CD? Thanks,mike Thanks Alias and Mike. Mike your are correct the problem is that the laptop cannot boot from the external DVD/CD drive. There must be some other method? Thanks, BlogTrotter Have either of you looked in your BIOS to see if booting from a USB port is possible? You may also have to enable legacy USB if it's in the BIOS. If neither is available, you're pretty much stuck with replacing the defective optical drive. This is one of the reasons I prefer desktops. Replacing an optical drive is cheap and easy. Alias |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
Alias wrote:
BlogTrotter wrote: "spamme0" wrote: Alias wrote: BlogTrotter wrote: The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I re-install Windows XP using the recovery disc without using the internal dvd/cd drive? Is it possible to download WXP: or install it from an external Philips dvd/cd drive or memory stick. BlogTrotter You can use the external DVD/CD drive. Alias I have a similar problem with an old Fujitsu Lifebook. Windows can read the external CD but cannot boot from it. Can I install XP without booting from the CD? Thanks,mike Thanks Alias and Mike. Mike your are correct the problem is that the laptop cannot boot from the external DVD/CD drive. There must be some other method? Thanks, BlogTrotter Have either of you looked in your BIOS to see if booting from a USB port is possible? You may also have to enable legacy USB if it's in the BIOS. If neither is available, you're pretty much stuck with replacing the defective optical drive. This is one of the reasons I prefer desktops. Replacing an optical drive is cheap and easy. Alias My problem is that the drive is NOT defective, it's just not a bootable option. Yes, I've checked the bios. The SPEC says you can't boot from it. I have no idea if it works with xp, but here's what I did with win2K. I built a barebones windows 98 desktop system. I used Acronis to image the drive. I pulled the laptop drive and restored this image to the laptop drive. I copied the 2K disk to a PCMCIA hard drive. Reinstalled the laptop drive and booted win98...and did an in-place install of win2K from the PCMCIA source drive. Wonder if you can put the laptop drive in your desktop, start xp install, abort it somewhere in the middle, replace it into the laptop and continue from there. Or, M$ could have just let us run the install from ANY operating system without booting the CD. Did I mention, "GRRRRRRR!!!" |
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Windows XP Re-Install without Internal dvd/cd drive
Alias wrote:
The internal dvd/cd drive in my Sony laptop is faulty and I use an external drive. I am now having problems with Windows XP. How can I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] external DVD/CD drive. There must be some other method? Thanks, BlogTrotter Have either of you looked in your BIOS to see if booting from a USB port is possible? You may also have to enable legacy USB if it's in the BIOS. If neither is available, you're pretty much stuck with replacing the defective optical drive. This is one of the reasons I prefer desktops. Replacing an optical drive is cheap and easy. Alias Thanks Alias, I've looked at the BIOS at startup [pressed F2] and and am unsure what to do to make changes there. Any suggestions? BogTrotter |
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