windows xp installation, CD drive broke

studentdave

Hey guys.

I have a problem :rolleyes:

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..

albertross_2

you could try copying the CD onto the usb drive using another PC. or to a 1gig usb flash drive.

alanrowell

Assuming you can alter the BIOS to boot from a USB port then an external CD drive would work.

Alternatively go onto ebay & get a new CD drive

studentdave

I'm reluctant to buy new drive..

So how do I change the BIOS to boot from my usb disk/drive?

Once I've copied the windows files from my CD to usb then what do I do