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Optical Drive - Laptop

  • 30-04-2009 11:30am
    #1
    krattapopov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭


    Hey All,
    Would appreciate your thoughts/comments on this scenario if yea can! My friend has a laptop they got in the states, they never activated vista on it, it was purchased over a year ago and just left aside!

    Anyway it appears that the dvd drive is busted on it.. my question is this. I'd like to install XP for them on it and do it through an external optical drive connected via usb. Now is it just a question of when booting up to choose the optical drive with the xp disc in it to boot from first or is there a danger that the laptop won't recognise the usb drive?


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  • #2
    waraf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭waraf


    krattapopov wrote: »
    Hey All,
    Would appreciate your thoughts/comments on this scenario if yea can! My friend has a laptop they got in the states, they never activated vista on it, it was purchased over a year ago and just left aside!

    Anyway it appears that the dvd drive is busted on it.. my question is this. I'd like to install XP for them on it and do it through an external optical drive connected via usb. Now is it just a question of when booting up to choose the optical drive with the xp disc in it to boot from first or is there a danger that the laptop won't recognise the usb drive?

    if it doesn't boot automatically from the external drive try going into the BIOS settings and setting the boot sequence so that it boots from the usb first


  • #3
    krattapopov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭krattapopov


    great stuff thanks waraf, I'll give it a shot


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