Reinstall without cd

[targy]

I lost my cd drive an do not have a boot disk, is there a
way to reinstall without the disk, or is there a way to
access my cd drive without booting up

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

If your system supports booting from the CD drive, it will show in the
system BIOS. The WinXP CD itself is bootable, so if your system supports it,
you don't need a boot disk.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Michael Stevens]

I lost my cd drive an do not have a boot disk, is there a
way to reinstall without the disk, or is there a way to
access my cd drive without booting up

If the CD drive is broken, replacements are very cheap and easy to install.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Without CD.
If you somehow can copy the XP CD to the hard drive, boot from a Win 98/Me
boot disk and run setup from the i386 folder. The setup file is "winnt.exe".

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
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