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#1 paulftb

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Posted 11 November 2007 - 09:42 PM

I had a hard disk failure, and cannot get the system to recognise the XP cd as bootable, can I format the hard disk as a USB drive from another XP system? If so, how, or are there utilities I can use?

I have looked everywhere I can search, but come up with nothing... :blink:

#2 LUZR4LIFE

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Posted 11 November 2007 - 10:02 PM

The CD is probably not bootable, maybe it was corrupted. I would use another PC to rebuild that XPCD.

#3 paulftb

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Posted 11 November 2007 - 10:37 PM

I have four XP CD's and none of them work, but the CD reader worked last week... :wacko:

#4 jaclaz

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Posted 12 November 2007 - 05:21 AM

If you have a 1 or 2 Gb USB stick, or another hard disk and a USB enclosure, you may go this way:
http://www.msfn.org/...topic=61384&hl=

Latest files are here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=423

but do browse the thread's last three or four pages to get more info about the process.

jaclaz