Hi all, brief history.
Got a packard bell laptop from a mate who said he would like it wiping. no probs.(laptop worked ok but slow) i rebooted it in to the packard bell recovery mode and the recovery failed and fails every time!
I thought thats fine i have all the drivers i will just pop a fresh copy of XP on it. then i found out that the cd-rom doesnt work.
now the system wont boot up in to normal mode, i have slaved the HDD in a pc and it reads the recovery partition where there is a boot.ini file along with Cabs, Drivers etc. problem is if i try to do anything with it it crashes the PC then says windows delayed write error.
I have put a new Hdd in the laptop and it tries to boot off it and gives the obvious no OS error. Oh and to top it all of it doesnt have the option to boot from USB.
My question is
Is there any method to install XP Cab files on to a HDD so that i can pop it back in to the laptop and start the windows installation from the bit after the CD install?
Or any other suggestions to try?


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