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xp crash/repair or reinstall...externally

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So one day I tried starting up my lappy and all I get is this blinking cursor after the bios goes away. no windows. I have tested my hdd and its fine so put the hdd in a usb enclosure and got my work files off. Now how do I go about repairing xp. Note the cd drive stopped working at the time of the crash as well, and the lappy doesnt support external booting.

I was hoping I could do a repair with the oem disc from my vista machine but its not letting me access those options?

:4-dontkno Help!!
 
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Welcome to TSF....

I am afraid that you will have to get the CD-ROM drive either fixed or replaced since both clean installs and repair-installs have to be done in the computer with the hard drive in them especially if they are laptops. You can try an external CD-ROM/DVD Drive if your laptop will support booting from an external but the hard drive has to be in the laptop so the install will detect all of the components of the computer.
 
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