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Title: Laptop Install Windows Problem
Post by: soopahfly on September 22, 2006, 22:57:38 PM

Ok, Ive got a laptop here that wont detect anything in the cd rom drive.
I need to install XP on there. Any suggestions?

No floppy drive in there either.

Title: Re:Laptop Install Windows Problem
Post by: Beaker on September 22, 2006, 23:05:00 PM

tried removing the CD Drive and putting it back in again?

Title: Laptop Install Windows Problem
Post by: Norphy on September 22, 2006, 23:12:34 PM

Three options I can think of:

A) Get a working CD-ROM drive
B) Take HDD out of laptop, put into a desktop, copy Windows installation files onto it. Run install files from hard drive
C) Use RIS

Title: Laptop Install Windows Problem
Post by: Maldonado on September 23, 2006, 13:41:17 PM

big hammer? ;)

Title: Re:Laptop Install Windows Problem
Post by: Serious on September 23, 2006, 14:42:38 PM

Checked if the system can boot from a USB device? If so copy the disk contents onto that, there are pages that tell you how to boot from one.

As a laptop HD wont fit the connectors in a normal PC put it into a dedicated USB2 enclosure and copy the files over.

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