On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:31:40 -0400, Meat Plow
wrote:

On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:23:26 -0500, me wrote:

Rahul wrote in news:1179921609.068097.105220
@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Hey Guys,

I have this weird problem. My laptop's only OS (Windows 2k3) crashed.
Now normally, I would have popped the Windows CD and recovered or
reinstalled the OS. But my laptop's CD drive is not working. My laptop
is a 3 year old Acer (AMD sempron 3000+, 512, 40GB, onboard SIS)
Now I had a genius idea of removing the hard drive of this laptop and
put it in my other laptop (with working CD drive) and install the OS
there (Windows again), and then put the hard drive back in my old
laptop. (The plan obviously didn't work as the OS attaches itself to
the processor... i suppose) (and my other laptop is an intel)

Now how can I install OS in laptop. (I have heard that we can install
OS through network, but I am not sure if my laptop supports it),
anyways, is there any OS which can be installed on the intel machine
but will still work on my AMD laptop?

(My C: is clean and formatted and I would install any OS on it if it
later allows me to install Windows or Linux)

Thanks in advance


swap CD drives instead...

Little to no chance the optical drives would be interchangeable.

100% chance they are interchangle: there's a standard for them.

Real fix possibility: Put drive in other computer, and *copy* the CD
to the drive. Put the drive back into the broken computer, boot a
diskette, and install from the CD contents that you copied earlier.