Originally posted by Faylo:

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I got the same problem with my Laptopt a left the battery charging and voila the operating system was gone (operating system not found message) .Now I can't even get it to boot.Is an old laptop that doesn't have a internal optical drive.I'm using a PC CARD DVD-ROM but my BIOS won't let me boot from it.I did a bootable flash drive but the system won't read it, because in the BIOS there's not such thing as USB Boot.
I got 4 options:1.ATAPI CD-ROM Drive 2.-Hard Drive 3.-Removable Devides (LS-120 or FDD)4.-Boot to LAN.
Does anyone know how to boot from a LAN connection,How do i make my PC a server,which program should i use (freeware)?

My Desktop has XP Home Edition SP3 and I have a Netgear Router that would do, but how?

I change the booting sequence to LAN Boot and i got some configuration settings, like:

Boot method: PXE,TCP/IP,Netware and RPL, each one has sub-commands but i don't want to switch them?. Please give me some advise or information about how to make bootable from a source.
Luckily i backup some of my info a couple of week ago.
Thank you and I'll gladly appreciate your help!!
The always newbie.

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