Alternative network installation?

[Guest]

I'm struggling with the reinstallation of one of my laptops. The laptop (an
older unit) has been running Windows 2000 but is becoming a bit sluggish and
is in need of a reinstall. The trouble is the cd drive on the laptop doesn't
seem to want to work (I get all sorts of read errors regardless of the disc
inserted). I was thinking it would be nice to find a way to install by
network but I don't have Win2K server installed on any of the machines here.
Is there a way to do a network deployment from another computer/OS. The
options immediately available are WinXP Pro, and Linux but I'm open to other
suggestions. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can create the integrated installation media and install from there.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay

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:
| I'm struggling with the reinstallation of one of my laptops. The laptop
(an
| older unit) has been running Windows 2000 but is becoming a bit sluggish
and
| is in need of a reinstall. The trouble is the cd drive on the laptop
doesn't
| seem to want to work (I get all sorts of read errors regardless of the
disc
| inserted). I was thinking it would be nice to find a way to install by
| network but I don't have Win2K server installed on any of the machines
here.
| Is there a way to do a network deployment from another computer/OS. The
| options immediately available are WinXP Pro, and Linux but I'm open to
other
| suggestions. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. Will it be possible to delete and recreate the
partitions this way? Whenever possible I like to start totally from 0. Thanks!