- Setup up w/PCMCIA CD-ROM to laptop?
- Posted by carlos on April 13th, 2008
Dear All,
I have a laptop that has no floppy drive, no CD ROM,
a newly formatted hard disk and is powerful enough
to accept Windows XP.
If I buy an external PCMCIA CD-ROM
is it possible to boot from it and setup Windows XP
to the newly formatted hard disk?
Please help as I cannot figure any other way
to setup Windows XP.
Thanks for your help in advance,
Carlos.
- Posted by David B. on April 14th, 2008
May or may not be, depending on the laptop, you may have better luck with a
USB model, check the BIOS for USB boot support, you may want to contact Dell
and ask them as well.
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- Posted by carlos on April 14th, 2008
No BIOS USB boot support :-(
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- Posted by smlunatick on April 15th, 2008
On Apr 14, 3:43*pm, "carlos" <carlos7...@gmail.com> wrote:
No floppy / no CD - no luck!
The laptop needs a "removable" media drive in order to get the
software to be loaded. If you do not have any "built-in" CD / floppy
drive and no USB boot options then you somehow hvae to remove the
laptop's hard drive and place it onto some other PC to be able to re-
load the XP "image" to it.
This laptop does not appear to be a worthy project to make working
again. No internal floppy drive or CD / DVD drive and no USB boot
support will make it difficult to repair / fix XP booting issuse.
