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William Hooper wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Barry Yu said:
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<pre wrap="">For installation of MS XP
and other MS OS, I can take the hard drive out from this laptop, use a
convertor to convert this tiny laptop type hard drive into a desktop
connection and use regular IDE cable to hook up to one of my desktop
where CD roms are equipped, then I copy the needed setup elements
(such as entire \i386) into the laptop hard drive, and then hook it up
back to the sony laptop, start the installation from the laptop and it's
done without problem.
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One option would be to just do the install on the desktop machine then
move the harddrive back to the laptop. You will most likely have some
issues to clean up (hard drive on different channels, etc.), but it should
be doable.
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