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Old 15-10-2007, 08:35 PM   #1
Greven
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Default Format & reinstall without a CD drive
Someone wants me to format the hard drive on their laptop & reinstall windows XP, but their CD drive is stuffed. It is an old laptop that probably won't boot from USB & I don't have a USB CD drive anyway.

Any ideas?
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