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replaced hard drive on laptop and need to boot recovery from external dvd?
I have an external dvd burner for the usb. I have the system cd and the recovery cds 1 and 2. Just installed a hitachi ide 160 gig. The dvd drive in the laptop does not work. The computer is a Acer aspire 1522 LMi. The os is windows xp. I also have an external media drive that has a backup of the entire old drive. It is a western digital 160 gig. It uses usb. I would appreciate if someone could figure this out. Thank you.
The only options in the boot section are --hard drive, dvd(internal), floppy, and network.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
2 ways to conduct the dvd drives to work. 1 ) turn off the computer hook up the dvd drive to the computer with the recovery cd 1 inside, turn on the computer and hit the f12 or the f11 button, this will take you the booting options. select the boot from usb dvd drive. this will allow the computer to boot from the usb dvd drive with the first cd in it. wait until every thing is installed and asking for the next cd, put the cd in the drive and finnish the task of installing the software. the second way to do this if the first way doesn't work is. hook up the drive to your computer with the cd rom in the drive. turn on the computer when the computer starts hit the f2 button, this will take you into the bios. scroll over the the booting options, select boot from usb dvd drive. and follow the prompts. after the installation is complete, remove the usb dvd drive, and restart the computer again this time either go into the bios and select boot from the hard drive. or hit either f12 or f11 and boot from hard drive. this will load the op and a window will pop up saying new hardware found this will be the computer dvd drive. wait and see if the op system locates the drivers for the drive by allowing the computer to connect to the internet and search the system as well. this will install the dvd drive drivers.
- heitmanLv 44 years ago
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