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Inspiron2600 rebuild (no CD)

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2/11/07 at 8:42pm
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I have a Dell Inspiron2600 whose CD decided to take a crap (bad memory error). I want to rebuild this machine (it's XP Home) using an external USB drive. First, can I? Secondly, if so, do I just copy the entire XP CD onto the external drive? Or should I make a bootable floppy, boot to that and then copy the XP files to the HD on the Inspiron?
I think I've had too many cups of coffee, asking all these questions but any help would be appreciated.

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Scott
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2/11/07 at 11:08pm
The 2600 I don't think supports booting from USB at all. You're going to have to borrow a CD-ROM from another machine (The 2600 will take a standard slim Optical drive) and install the OS that way.
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