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Jeff818
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_ 		2. March 2008 @ 14:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi, is it possible to reinstall the operating system on my desktop computer using a external hard drive? i have the recovery disk,but my dvd drive has been taken out. i have a laptop so i can try to burn the recovery disk to the external hard drive. thanks for your help
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Pittfan
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_ 		3. March 2008 @ 18:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes if the BIOS sees it. And If your BIOS saw the HDD, just have windows install to that drive..
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Jeff818
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_ 		3. March 2008 @ 19:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok thanks very much for your help. how can i make the BIOS see it? and would it work with a flash drive? i just got a new 2 gig. flash drive. the recovery dvd is 1.7 gig. can you walk me through the process? thanks so much

Jeff
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_ 		5. March 2008 @ 03:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Jeff, don't take this as an insult but if you're not very computer literate you'll have a difficult time achieving this.

The easiest thing to do would be to use an external CD/DVD drive but before we get into all that you have to make sure your BIOS has an option to boot from a USB device.

Can't you hook up a cheap internal DVD-drive and install the OS that way?
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