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September 22nd, 2007 13:00

Latitude X1 reinstallation

I have a recently aquired DELL Latitude X1 laptop that I wanted to reinstall Windows XP on. However, I just realized there is no CD/DVD drive in this thing. I have reinstalled operating systems hundreds of times, but the machine always had a CD or DVD drive that I could work with. How do I do it with this machine. I'm thinking some sort of external device, but maybe there is a better way.
 
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    Posted September 23rd, 2007 15:00

    yes in this case the option will be to install from a external CD ROM.
     
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    Posted September 23rd, 2007 18:00

    After some further investigating, how would I do this though since there is only two options to boot from when accessing the boot menu (F12) during start up. They are just:
    • Boot from Internal HD
    • Boot from NIC

    It doesn't give any kind of CD-Rom option.

     



    Message Edited by northview on 09-23-2007 03:36 PM
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    Posted September 23rd, 2007 21:00

    the bios is not listing de CD ROM boot option because you dont have it conect it, once you do it it will be listed and you will be able to boot from there,
     
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    Posted September 27th, 2007 02:00

    Connected a external USB CD-Rom drive and it showed up perfectly in the Boot Menu (F12). Was able to load & run the XP installation disc with no problems. Thanks for the advice.
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    Posted September 27th, 2007 03:00

    good, nice to hear that!!

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