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Hexer

I am trying to fix a laptop for a friend. They broke their CD drive (internal in the laptop) and scince then have been using a external CD drive. However their windows broke, (hee hee, they got a virus). So basically they need to install windows, but bios only checks the broken cd drive for a boot disk. I have taken appart the laptop and tryed to fix the CD drive but the mechanism is shot (totally bent out of shape) and the motor seems burnt out. The price for a new internal CD drive excedes the cost for a new laptop as the company who made the laptop has gone bust.
I need to know if there is any way to get a windows install Cd to boot (out of windows) off of the external drive.

Floppy disk drive works btw :P

radar

Hi Hexer,

Try getting into the BIOS (tap del or F2 at power up) and check the boot options, see if you can get the system to boot from "removable devices" first,
There may be an option to boot from USB device which should be enabled to boot from the USB drive.
Let us know how you do.

Hexer · 01:56 PM

I can't see the boot from usb option anywhere is bios and I checked everywhere, in the boot devices menu all it gives are Floppy disk drive, hard drive and cd drive (broken). It just lets you choose them as either boot 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Does not even let you specifie them as primary + primary slave and secondary + secondary slave as I usually see.

there are hardly any options in it.

its a time laptop (time is make) On bottom modle number is 7321. Bios is Insyde software mobile PRO bios version 3.00.03
In the system setup (F2) it says its system bios version 1.06 and EC bios 1.05

Its got a AMD proccessor, the OS was home edition windows XP.

Hengis

Welcome to the forum Hexer. Follow THIS LINK and it will enable you to boot from a usb storage device in DOS. Let us know how you get on

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