need to get this lappy up and running

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  • glic83
    DK Veteran
    • Jan 2009
    • 329
    #1

    need to get this lappy up and running

    Ok my mates laptop is around 5 years old and is fu*ked basically so he wants to do a fresh install of xp heres the problem hes dvd drive wont read cd/dvd's so we cant boot from there and it wont boot from hes external dvd drive so another friend of ours has a spare 40 gig hard drive same size as the 1 in the laptop so would would out grand.
    At the moment this hd is in a case as it was an internal hd then he used it as an external hd,now how do we put windows xp onto this hd so that when we swap the hard drives that we can boot xp again?
    Tags: lappy, running
    • Lanxman
      DK Veteran
      • Dec 2008
      • 552
      #2
      Try and find someone else who has an ext disc drive mate, I had a prolem booting xp off an ext cd drive but I have 2 of them. When I tried the other one it booted no problem.
      Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

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        • glic83
          DK Veteran
          • Jan 2009
          • 329
          #3
          ill see if i can find some1 that has 1,when i tried to boot from the external dvd drive 2day i was getting nothing but then i thought that was because it was via usb
          Last edited by glic83; 14 January, 2009, 01:35.

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            • Lanxman
              DK Veteran
              • Dec 2008
              • 552
              #4
              No honest bud I have had the same problem too with one of my drives but when I used the other one it was fine. Is the drive showing up when you go to choose boot device? It was on mine but I just wasn't getting anything like you say, But when I tried the other one it was fine. Try another ext cd drive first to save messing about.
              Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

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                • shady77
                  Banned
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 982
                  #5
                  what xp version are you trying to load? before service pack 1, xp takes control of the usb ports and the loader cant read them. its bizarre but true. try getting an xp disc with service pack 2 integrated

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                    • glic83
                      DK Veteran
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 329
                      #6
                      the disk has xp service pack 2 alreay on it,ill let ye know how it goes

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                        • C64
                          V.I.P. Member
                          • Mar 2008
                          • 2394
                          #7
                          If you install XP onto a hard drive which is connected to a different machine at the time of installation then don't be surprised if the Laptop crashes once you install the drive into it.

                          During installation XP setups a lot of hardware, swapping the drive into another PC will mean that the setup is invalid and the PC may crash during boot.

                          Sometimes you can be lucky and it will boot, then it's just a matter of installing appropriate drivers for your hardware.

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