Possible to install Windows through a network?

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Hi all, got a bit of a problem, got a laptop which has a doofered cd drive in it and i want to reinstall windows on it. Is it possible to hook it up my network at home and then do a windows format/install/setup through that? Or am i going to have to find a big enough pen drive and install via usb?
 
Cheers Burnsy, i did find an external floppy drive but that route was shafted when we didnt have any blank floppys. What would be my port of call after formatting via the floppy? I was going to say copy the i386 folder from the cd onto a networked computer then copy that across the network the the laptop and install from that, but i've no idea if i could access the network after its been fully formated :s
 
Yeh there is an OS already installed, if i do this, will i be able to format the machine too? Or will it just rewrite over everything with a new copy of windows.
 
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