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post #1 of 6
6/15/06 at 2:36pm
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I just bought a new hard disk. how do i install win XP when there is no cd-rom drive? I have got a external CD-rom Drive.
Thks and Rgds
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post #2 of 6
7/29/06 at 9:53pm

Bootable CD Drive?

I’m no expert, but I’ll try to answer your question, since there’s been no replies for over a month.

Is your external CD drive bootable? Is it the Fujitsu model FDCCD33AP by chance? That one's for the B2620/30 LifeBooks among others. Not many other CD drives are bootable in the B-series laptops, as I recall. Also, even if your drive is a bootable one, you may need to enable it and/or change the boot order in BIOS. Then, it should be just a matter of starting the laptop with the XP CD in the CD drive and following on screen instructions.

Without a bootable CD drive it will be hard to install Windows XP.

An option might be to install the hard drive on a desktop first. Then format it, partition it and install XP on it. Then lastly, install the drive in the LifeBook. This is all from memory, from when I researched this a while back. There are probably a few other minor steps involved.

This is the disadvantage of not having a built -in optical (CD/DVD) drive on the laptop. The advantage is and extremely small and light-weight unit.

Hope this helps.
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post #3 of 6
8/3/06 at 3:42pm
Installing on another computer poses some problems. Windows XP is meant to work on one PC. If you just switch hard drives it will won't boot due to it being on different hardware. I know there is a way around it (I think you just repair the instaltion) but be warned, problems may occur and you might lose data.
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post #4 of 6
8/3/06 at 6:08pm
Here's what I referencing from memory in my previous post. It's from: http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8575
Should be in the second post on the page:

"Installation via the Desktop PC.
-Mount the hard disk with an adapter into the desktop pc.
-create 2 partitions. Make the C: drive bootable and able to start DOS. Make D: drive copy the files from the installation CD into this drive.
-Remount the disk into the B-Series and start the system. Now you should be able to change to drive D: and start the installation."

Don't know if it works but it's worth a try since there are few or no other options. Also, as mentioned in this link, boot to network is a boot option on at least some B-series LifeBooks, but a network install can be difficult.
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post #5 of 6
2/14/08 at 4:57pm
I've been using a optical-less computer for a long time and have done about a half dozen installs on it (Dell L400, ThinkPad 570E). The most complete and easy to do was by using the method mentioned above. By creating a partition for the install disk, you have all your install files already there, but Windows hasn't set up drivers or settings specific for another computer. It does work to install windows on another laptop and then swap the hard drive out, but that doesn't get as good of a fit and sometimes doesn't work at all. Some laptops can boot from a USB drive too, so you could copy an install CD to a 1GB+ drive and try that as well.


The trick though is to make sure you make the C drive bootable. do this by using a good original Windows 98 installation CD, it has formatting tools that Windows XP doesn't have (because it isn't running dos I think).

There are a couple great sites that have windows 98 boot disks which will have everything you need to partition and format the drive and then copy over the windows XP CD ROM. good luck!!
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post #6 of 6
7/28/09 at 8:17am

install xp with ninternal CDrom from usb

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