Hi,

I have a dell laptop. 500MHz with 128 mb ram. It has no floppy drive and connects to a dvd/cd-rw via usb. The bios can't boot from usb.

So I have an XP disk, a 2.5" ide to usb caddy and a second computer. My thinking is that i will load the files i need on to the laptop hdd via the caddy and then attach the hdd to the laptop and start the setup, at which point the usb dvd drive will have been recognised.

I just have no clue on how to start. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Adam

You need to first and foremost make the hard drive bootable with DOS.

Then you can copy the i386 XP folder from CD to hard drive.

Rum setup from MS-DOS:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307...

Though 500mhz and 128mb memory will be painful running XP, W2K would be better..

Hi Orbital,

Any chance you could expand on the make the hard disk dos bootable at all?

Got your other points, just not sure how to go about this.

Thanks,
Adam