Yesterday, i picked up the task of bringing back to life an old laptop, a HP Compaq Presario 2500 series. Unfortunately, when i tried to boot from the Windows XP disk so i can format it and then install the OS, i found out that the laptop’s DVD drive was…dead!

I didn’t had a replacement for it, so my first thought was to copy everything in a USB stick and just boot from it and complete the process. But it wasn’t as easy as i thought it would be! Of course my first attempt (just copy everything to the USB stick) was a failure (i wasn’t expected anything more). Afterwards, when i googled the issue, i found a lot of different ways to accomplish the task. After spending some hours trying a lot of them, komku’s solution actually worked and the old laptop resurrected!

belongs to: software | posted on January, 2009