rinstall windows xp

[mido1971]

hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home installed,
the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the usb to
boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery cd to
boot from.


any help or idea

thanks in advance

 

[Alias]

hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home installed,
the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the usb to
boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery cd to
boot from.


any help or idea

thanks in advance

Buy an external USB CD ROM.

Alias

 

[mido1971]

thanks

i have the external cdrom but my bios dot see the usb ports to boot from

i tryed to boot rom external cdrom but i didnt get my recovery disk

 

[meerkat]

hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home
installed,
the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the
usb to
boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery
cd to
boot from.

You `ve got to sort your CD drive before you can reinstall
XP home.
Have you any idea why the drive doesn`t work ?.
Have you tried a CD drive head cleaning kit on it ?.

 

[mido1971]

yes i tried evry thing with the drive
the only thing i dont do it is to buy a new drive because i use this pc to
do my test

the another thing i am working in safe mode only becuase i cant run my
windows becuase is resdtarting when he start to run with the starter screen
with progressbar


thanks a lot for help

 

[1PW]

yes i tried evry thing with the drive
the only thing i dont do it is to buy a new drive because i use this pc to
do my test

the another thing i am working in safe mode only becuase i cant run my
windows becuase is resdtarting when he start to run with the starter screen
with progressbar


thanks a lot for help

If your computer has permanently failed USB port(s) /and/ a CD-ROM
drive, it's time to consider a replacement system. Professional repair
costs would probably come close to or exceed the value of your system.

 

[Frank Slootweg]

hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home installed,
the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the usb to
boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery cd to
boot from.

If this is the XP installation which came with the laptop, then it
should have Acer's eRecovery software. If so, just start eRecovery and
follow the prompts.

If the system doesn't boot, you can start eRecovery at bootup. IIRC
by pressing Alt+F10 (see your User Guide).

Of course this doesn't protect you against a *physical* hard-disk
crash, but *if* that happens, you can still buy an external CD(/DVD)
drive and use the recovery CD.

 

[Guest]

hi
i have small probleme i have laptop acer 1310 with win xp home installed,
the problem is my cdrom dirive is broken and and he bios dont see the usb to
boot from how can i rinstall the win xp where i cant use the recovery cd to
boot from.


any help or idea

thanks in advance

That's why it's critical to image your drive the first time you turn it on.
Then, you can always pull the drive and put back the OS using another
computer. If you know someone with a similar computer, you might
be able to clone their drive, then figure out how to get the sw
activated by M$. With the right image, you should be able to restore
the image in any computer...as long as you don't try to boot it before
you put the drive back into your laptop.
I've found XP to be very forgiving of hardware changes. Hardware
re-detection is very good...it's the ACTIVATION that trips it up.
If it boots, you have the option to replace the license key and
the *.dbl stuff. If you don't get lucky, you can always call
the mothership for phone activation. Often it just won't boot at all...
reinstall windows...sorry for the inconvenience.

Don't forget to check if there is a BIOS update that will let you boot
from an external CD.

Back in the days of win2k and earlier, you could put the drive in
another system, partition it into two pieces. Copy the win2k install cd
to partition 2, install win98, but don't run it.
Put the drive back into the laptop, let it finish installing then install
win2k in place. Talk about inconvenience...that was the best option
I could come up with at the time.

There are programs to let you boot from a floppy drive to run a bootable
linux CD when your computer doesn't support booting from CD.
Wonder if that technique could be used?

I've asked the question several times in different newsgroups. Nobody
has been willing to give me any clues on how to install XP without a CD
drive...sorry for any inconvenience...
It's very easy to dismiss you with, "go buy a new CD drive" when it's
not their money.


If you find a way to do it, please publish the result here.
Good luck in your quest.

 

[Guest]

That's why it's critical to image your drive the first time you turn it
on.
Then, you can always pull the drive and put back the OS using another
computer. If you know someone with a similar computer, you might
be able to clone their drive, then figure out how to get the sw
activated by M$. With the right image, you should be able to restore
the image in any computer...as long as you don't try to boot it before
you put the drive back into your laptop.
I've found XP to be very forgiving of hardware changes. Hardware
re-detection is very good...it's the ACTIVATION that trips it up.
If it boots, you have the option to replace the license key and
the *.dbl stuff. If you don't get lucky, you can always call
the mothership for phone activation. Often it just won't boot at all...
reinstall windows...sorry for the inconvenience.

Don't forget to check if there is a BIOS update that will let you boot
from an external CD.

Back in the days of win2k and earlier, you could put the drive in
another system, partition it into two pieces. Copy the win2k install cd
to partition 2, install win98, but don't run it.
Put the drive back into the laptop, let it finish installing then install
win2k in place. Talk about inconvenience...that was the best option
I could come up with at the time.

There are programs to let you boot from a floppy drive to run a bootable
linux CD when your computer doesn't support booting from CD.
Wonder if that technique could be used?

I've asked the question several times in different newsgroups. Nobody
has been willing to give me any clues on how to install XP without a CD
drive...sorry for any inconvenience...
It's very easy to dismiss you with, "go buy a new CD drive" when it's
not their money.

I'm an idiot. In another computer You can format the drive fat32
use a win98 floppy to sys the drive. copy himem.sys and smartdrv.exe
to the hd. Edit autoexec.bat and config.sys until you can get the
disk to boot in your target system. Don't forget to check that the
partition you created is active or it won't boot.
Then copy the xp cd to the
hard drive in another system. (You may need only the i386 directory)
Stick it back in the target system, boot it. Make sure smartdrv
is running and install xp in place using winnt.exe instead of setup.

I do this routinely for win2k, but couldn't make it work in XP, couldn't
get any answers on the web and never tried again.
Dang if it don't work in xp.
To think of all the time I wasted working around this.
I am an idiot!! Sigh.