GhorMaanas
The Vagrant Seeker
Hello!
i recently received a refurbished 500GB HDD for my old laptop in RMA from Seagate. i wish to install WinXP on it. however, the laptop's optical drive is defunct, and nor does its BIOS support USB-boot option. i understand that i may need to use Plop boot manager to enable the USB-boot option to either boot from external optical drive using WinXP installation CD, or from a flash drive; but the HDD being clean, how to install the boot manager on it? i saw a video on youtube that tells something about using a combination of some VMware player, wintoflash, Plop boot manager as a remedy, but the video is in greek. will check it again tomorrow on my desktop, as watching it on my cell didn't help with regard to video-clarity too, so that i could atleast see properly what was the poster doing.
anyway, please suggest a solution.
thanks!
i recently received a refurbished 500GB HDD for my old laptop in RMA from Seagate. i wish to install WinXP on it. however, the laptop's optical drive is defunct, and nor does its BIOS support USB-boot option. i understand that i may need to use Plop boot manager to enable the USB-boot option to either boot from external optical drive using WinXP installation CD, or from a flash drive; but the HDD being clean, how to install the boot manager on it? i saw a video on youtube that tells something about using a combination of some VMware player, wintoflash, Plop boot manager as a remedy, but the video is in greek. will check it again tomorrow on my desktop, as watching it on my cell didn't help with regard to video-clarity too, so that i could atleast see properly what was the poster doing.
anyway, please suggest a solution.
thanks!
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