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08-11-2006, 05:51 AM
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Installing XP with no CD-ROM
Hi. A friend of mine has asked me to sort out his laptop. He bought it from eBay (yeah, I know) and it needs to have XP re-installed. There seems to be registry problems so the machine refuses to boot, even in safe mode, it keeps rebooting.
The thing is, is that it is a mini-laptop and has no cd drive. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to install XP? All suggestions welcome. Thanks |
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08-11-2006, 05:59 AM
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You can get adaptors that will let you hook the drive as slave to a desktop pc. (cost about 7.00USD)
Can format and copy the contents of the xp cd to the drive. Put the drive back in the lappy - boot off a floppy and: How to start the Setup program from MS-DOS in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307848/en-us
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08-11-2006, 07:43 AM
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the laptop has no floppy drive either. It does have USB etc, but no floppy or cd drive. It is a very small Dell Latitude.
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08-11-2006, 07:55 AM
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Do you have any of the manufacturers manuals for it?
What is the service tag number and what model of Latitude is it? Is there any kind of backup software with it on media that would be used on an external drive?
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08-11-2006, 08:05 AM
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Your gonna need to find a CD drive or a floppy drive and/or an adapter to hook to your desktop (though with the floppy you need it to boot into windows) If you had a floppy drive and it booted you could make another partition large enough to put the XP CD on there and 300 MB or so more. Take it to your desktop, use the adapter and put XP on the newly made partition. Then boot off a win 98 boot disk into DOS, change to drive E: then to the i386 directory and run WINNT32 (glc helped me with my lappy with that about 3 years ago).
But with what you have now, you cant do a thing.
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08-12-2006, 10:34 AM
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You can boot it with a USB floppy drive - and *possibly* even with a USB CD drive. I know the original Acer Tablet PC's would boot from specific USB CD drives.
There may be a restore partition on it - and accessing that is a simple set of keystrokes on startup. Search the Dell support site for the procedure. This will reimage the system partition. |
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