help!!! reinstalling os.

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  1. Jeff818

    Jeff818 Member

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    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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    Yes if the BIOS sees it. And If your BIOS saw the HDD, just have windows install to that drive..
     
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    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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    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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