installing windows xp on new hdd in laptop with no disc drive

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ghetochief

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Hello everyone,

I have a laptop which a friend gave to me because the screen stopped working, so he took the hdd out and put it into an external hdd case. I want to use this laptop so i bought a new 2.5" internal hdd to put in it, as the laptop has no disc drive I was wondering how I could install windows xp onto the hdd before I put it into the laptop, anyone got any ideas?

I thought that maybe i could take the hard drive out of my current laptop and put the new hard drive into it then install windows xp onto it, then put it into the new laptop and put my old hard drive back into the original laptop, would this pose any problems or could it be risky?

Cheers and thank you in advance, Ben.
 
ghetochief said:
Hello everyone,

I have a laptop which a friend gave to me because the screen stopped working, so he took the hdd out and put it into an external hdd case. I want to use this laptop so i bought a new 2.5" internal hdd to put in it, as the laptop has no disc drive I was wondering how I could install windows xp onto the hdd before I put it into the laptop, anyone got any ideas?

I thought that maybe i could take the hard drive out of my current laptop and put the new hard drive into it then install windows xp onto it, then put it into the new laptop and put my old hard drive back into the original laptop, would this pose any problems or could it be risky?

Cheers and thank you in advance, Ben.
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Yup, it is risky. If you do that, you will keep getting BSOD. Try google install xp from usb drive.
 
go spend $20 on a disk drive, but i think if done it before. You need to partition the hard drive and put the xp on the new partition. Than you run the installation from the desktop, it restarts and installs. The only catch is the xp needs to be a newer version than you have on. If you had a cd you could restart and boot from cd and use the setup (alot easier)
 
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