anyone knows about laptops?

[Puertorican_CB7]

sup,I have a VAIO PCG-K23,I want to install XP on this pc but the DVD-ROM on it its dead,so I borrowed a USB CD-RW from a friend,the thing is that I want to boot the XP CD from the CD-RW but on the BIOS Booting Sequence I dont have the option to select USB CD-ROM or something,any suggestions exept buying a new DVD-ROM LMAO!

[accordaffair]

try booting something like dr dos, something that has cdrom support

[slick]

Hey I know this is but what kind of lip is that on that cb Puertorican_CB7?

[Accord R33]

if your bios doesnt have support to boot off USB, you are pretty much screwed.

[Puertorican_CB7]

Hey I know this is but what kind of lip is that on that cb Puertorican_CB7?

I dont know,my friend gave it to me,he said that was on a CB9,it fitted perfectly,but I'd say is CUSTOM?????

[Pandemic]

depending on your bios, you should be able to do it. Go into the boot sequence and look around for USB support, usb device, something like that. make that boot first. You're saying that you want to put XP on it.. xp needs 333mhz + and over 64mb ram. If you dont have that... dont think about XP. if you do... get an upgrade of memory or something to make it run better. Either way if its that old... you're going to want another dvd drive

Another option is getting a laptop hard drive to IDE converter. then you can put it in a desktop, put xp on it and (should) be able to pop it right in the laptop... hard to say though. Ive not tried doing that. Sometimes swapping hdd's like that dosent work.

Let me know how you do.

[Puertorican_CB7]

well,I just bought a new DVD-rom,but thanks anyway