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<blockquote data-quote="vashsunglassesRCJMJ" data-source="post: 2117265" data-attributes="member: 431648">Ok, so I&#039;m fixing my friend&#039;s laptop...After the BIOS loads, Windows XP does sign in and then there&#039;s a blank screen that says &quot;blah blah blah can&#039;t load, ok?&quot; I&#039;ve tried &quot;last known configuration&quot; and &quot;safe mode&quot;, no dice. So, I tried to reinstall the operating system from the disk....One problem, his disk drive doesn&#039;t work. At all. (Yes I have it set in the BIOS to load from CD/DVD ROM first) It used to work sometimes but I guess it died since he bought it from me.So, I&#039;m thinking I need to buy a USB external DVD ROM (because he needs it anyway and) so that I can reinstall Windows XP.Will this work? Can I plug it in, start up the computer, and reinstall from the disk without ever going through Windows?Oh and there&#039;s no Windows XP backup on the hard drive so I can&#039;t do it that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vashsunglassesRCJMJ, post: 2117265, member: 431648"] Ok, so I'm fixing my friend's laptop... After the BIOS loads, Windows XP does sign in and then there's a blank screen that says "blah blah blah can't load, ok?" I've tried "last known configuration" and "safe mode", no dice. So, I tried to reinstall the operating system from the disk.... One problem, his disk drive doesn't work. At all. (Yes I have it set in the BIOS to load from CD/DVD ROM first) It used to work sometimes but I guess it died since he bought it from me. So, I'm thinking I need to buy a USB external DVD ROM (because he needs it anyway and) so that I can reinstall Windows XP. Will this work? Can I plug it in, start up the computer, and reinstall from the disk without ever going through Windows? Oh and there's no Windows XP backup on the hard drive so I can't do it that way. [/QUOTE]

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