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More info?)
An option would be to purchase a USB Floppy drive, as it looks like
your existing CD-ROM as gone south. But as you can't get into
windows to install the required drivers.....
I can only suggest you replace the CD-ROM drive.
rgds
Li'l Roberto
"WCFInvader" <WCFInvader@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F0E53EDF-C614-4461-B8A8-2CCE6B522D07@microsoft.com...
>I have allready tried that it will not read any CD
>
> "Li'l Roberto" wrote:
>
>> "WCFInvader" <WCFInvader@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:63041F4A-68D1-40F3-8289-555FA8EF2C76@microsoft.com...
>> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314503
>> > there is the problem but I ahve a laptop that doesnt have a floppy disk
>> > drive so someone please help me thanx
>>
>> Can you not boot from your XP installation CD and use the recovery
>> console?, if no for whatever reason, then perhaps you can borrow a
>> CD from a colleague.
>>
>> rgds
>> Li'l Roberto
>>
>>
>>
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