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I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with Win XP Professional.
THE CD (D) Drive on my laptop is malfunctioning, it is not reading any CD.
I guess I have to replace it eventually. I am currently using my external
CD Backpack drive to read and write CD's.
I need to format my hard drive and reinstall Win XP Professional.
How could I boot up from this external drive to reinstall XP from DOS. Or
any suggestions as to how I could reinstall XP from my external drive
I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with Win XP Professional.
THE CD (D) Drive on my laptop is malfunctioning, it is not reading any CD.
I guess I have to replace it eventually. I am currently using my external
CD Backpack drive to read and write CD's.
I need to format my hard drive and reinstall Win XP Professional.
How could I boot up from this external drive to reinstall XP from DOS. Or
any suggestions as to how I could reinstall XP from my external drive