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**TriggerFinger** · 03-23-2008, 10:52 PM

is your laptop capable of booting from an external USB attached CD/DVD drive (most laptops are)? if yes, try that first before you consider a network boot install option.

another thing that you can do is to:
1. use the laptop HDD and an adapter cable.
2. remove the hard drive of your desktop and hook up laptop HDD in instead (via adapter cable).
3. install XP as you would on any desktop.
4. go to device manager and uninstall all all system drivers then,
5. uninstall all the other drivers.
6. power OFF the desktop (DO NO REBOOT).
7. remove the laptop harddrive and install back in the laptop.
8. boot the laptop
9. install needed drivers via USB flash drive or via internet download.

03-23-2008, 10:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,791 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Install windows xp sp2 home using network boot is your laptop capable of booting from an external USB attached CD/DVD drive (most laptops are)? if yes, try that first before you consider a network boot install option. another thing that you can do is to: 1. use the laptop HDD and an adapter cable. 2. remove the hard drive of your desktop and hook up laptop HDD in instead (via adapter cable). 3. install XP as you would on any desktop. 4. go to device manager and uninstall all all system drivers then, 5. uninstall all the other drivers. 6. power OFF the desktop (DO NO REBOOT). 7. remove the laptop harddrive and install back in the laptop. 8. boot the laptop 9. install needed drivers via USB flash drive or via internet download. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE Last edited by TriggerFinger; 03-23-2008 at 11:22 PM.