windows xp installation, CD drive broke

[niceyounglogical]

Hey guys.

I have a problem

Basically,

I have an old lenovo laptop, and I wish to re-install a fresh copy of
Windows XP onto it

I have the windows XP installation CD, but my CD drive does not work.

I have a usb drive at 10GB

My drive is already partition in 3 ways with around 10gb in each drive
letter in My Computer

Can someone help me out here..

 

[Guest]

Whats the problem......Simply purchase a new/used cdrom or cdrw.I see
wal-mart carries liteonit dvdrw thats also a dvdrom,cdrw,cdrom for 44.00

 

[Guest]

Will the Lenovo laptop boot to a usb device?
What brand, type, size is the internal hd?

Take the internal hd out of the laptop and put it in another computer.
Partition it with FAT32 and two partitions. Put the i386 directory and its'
subs in the second partion. Make the first partition bootable to a command
prompt. Install from the second partition. Convert to ntfs later if you
want to.

charles....

 

[Guest]

-Ebay item 130034071467 is the kind of thing you need. And a desktop PC, of
course.