Booting Windows from an External CD Drive
Aloha,
The internal hard drive on my wife's Dell Inspiron 6000 crashed, so I'm getting a replacement hard drive from Dell. I'll need to boot up as well as install XP and other software, but her internal CD ROM drive doesn't work. (She hasn't really needed it before, so we just didn't replace it. I don't want to buy a new one ($110 from Dell) just for the installation.) (No floppy, either.)
So I'm thinking that if it's possible to boot up and install windows from an external CD, then I'll just find one to borrow.
Any help is much appreciated.
Mahalo,
Rick
Re: Booting Windows from an External CD Drive
Can you try to open the computer and check what type of cd drive sata or ide. You can also go to Best Buy or some other online shop and buy one. They are cheap and easy to install, unless Dell did something stupid. Someone else here could confirm if it really needs to be a Dell drive.
Re: Booting Windows from an External CD Drive
OK, thank you all for your help.
Rick