Setup up w/PCMCIA CD-ROM to laptop?

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.

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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"carlos" <carlos777m@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

No BIOS USB boot support :-(

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"David B." <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> 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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>
> ----
> Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
> How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
> __________________________________________________ _______________________________
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> "carlos" <carlos777m@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 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.
>>
>

On Apr 14, 3:43*pm, "carlos" <carlos7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No BIOS USB boot support :-(
>
> .
> .
>
> "David B." <nom...@nomail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:eOkxoNlnIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > 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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> > Crosspost, do not multiposthttp://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
> > How to ask a questionhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
> > __________________________________________________ _________________________*______
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> > "carlos" <carlos7...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:OTLURpZnIHA.1052@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> 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.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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.