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Installing XP off of a USB drive

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I have a laptop which seemed to have failed somewhere between \system and \system32. Awesome... I've run several check disks off of utilities via my usb drive but these files are unrecoverable. I figure it could all work out if I could try to repair function on the XP install cd but the CD drive is dead... Is there any way to put a bootable copy of an XP install cd on a thumb drive?

Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: September 1, 2008 at 01:30:58 Pacific

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Koby, perhaps load the thumb on another machine and install it on yours? HTH. Ed in Texas.

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Name: aegis
Date: September 1, 2008 at 20:58:54 Pacific

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I suggest that you replace the dead CD drive. At least try reseating it, if you haven't done that.

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