Installing Windows without CD drive or bootable USB support.

This laptop is starting to p*ss me off. So while visiting the folkes back home i dug out my old Dell XP laptop (that has wifi & DVD-ROM drive).

So i swap the HDD's over fine. Installed XP onto the 10GB partition.

Swapped them back again but after POST the screen goes black. No XP splash screen but i can see the backlight is on.

Can get the Advanced Options Menu. Tried VGA mode, safemode (just pauses with the list of drivers), last know good config etc.

So i put in the HDD of the Dell laptop in to see what happens but same thing, which is odd. In the Dell laptop i can go through the full setup up all the way to desktop. Now i'm thinking of trying Linux for a test. Any suggestions as its been years since i installed Mandrake in 2002?
 
Now to the haters, yes i could give the laptop back to my friend but i'd be disappointed i couldnt solve it. **** i could even give them this old Dell laptop but that would be too easy.
 
Ali195 said:
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So i swap the HDD's over fine. Installed XP onto the 10GB partition.
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Jesus - You have already been told the right way to do this. You seem to have completely ignored my post earlier (post #8) which gave you a working method. Dunno why I bothered.


Ali195 said:
Now i'm thinking of trying Linux for a test. Any suggestions as its been years since i installed Mandrake in 2002?
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I refer you again to post#8 "Something like lubuntu would be a good choice"
 
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