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Hi all

I have a SONY VAIO laptop with a DVD drive that is faulty - it's impossible to boot from the drive at all. I have copied the contents of the XP CD to d: via USB pen drive and am wondering if I can format c: then install XP from it's location on d: drive?

I hope you can understand what I?m trying to say!!!

Thanks

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Unfortunately there is no way to install from another HDD partition. Only option is to buy an external CD drive which is quite cheap these days.

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Simplest solution is to replace the faulty DVD drive, they're really cheap these days.

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