is this possible?

fat-600 · 13 Aug 2008 at 15:50

hey there,

i have a laptop that cant boot from cd, say i pull the hard drive out put it in another laptop, install windows without installing the drivers, then put it back into the laptop, will it work? :confused:

cos im at wits end with it
thanks

fat-600 · 13 Aug 2008 at 17:34

ahhh ok guys, not to worry its an old one anyway, just thought it whold be nice to put XP on it and give it to my old man to use but i think i might just bin it
taa lads

fat-600 · 13 Aug 2008 at 19:14

mr.sly said:
Linux not an option here? If you're just giving it away, I guess they'll only be using it for web, email and a few documents. There's enough guides out there for installing off a USB drive as well.

not really man, the software he needs on the laptop is not compatable with linux, it was only so we could take it racing and use it with the race car.

fat-600 · 13 Aug 2008 at 23:44

swinnie said:
Try loading the SATA drivers when prompted from a USB Stick, that is probably why XP isn't seeing the drive.

its not a SATA drive its an old laptop, it just will not boot from CD says checking CD ROM then says no bootable disc found, and has bad install of windows 2000 on there

fat-600 · 14 Aug 2008 at 15:38

bledd. said:
fat-600, how old is the laptop? i've got a 32mb, pentium 1 that can boot from cd

not too sure on the age but has stickers saying desingend for windows 2000/windows 98

it goes to read the disc but says no boot CD and carrys on loading the operating system

thanks