Guys,
I hope someone can help me here.
I have a Toshiba Protege 3500 (info:http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/toshiba3500_xp_tablet.htm) with Windows Tablet 2005 installed. Long story short, I gave the laptop to my brother who got virus on it. It was lying about and now Ive decided to resuscitate it back to life with a new installation of Windows XP Tablet. I have windows xp tablet cds (not the Toshiba restore ones) but I have a few problems.
1- There is no CD drive. Protege 3500 are notoriously incompatible with external cd drives and only a select (Toshiba) few are boot compatible and they cost upto £80+ on ebay.
2- USB bootup (and SD card) is also out of the question as the Bios does not support it.
The good news is that the laptop as it is right now, does load Win XP tablet. I am wondering if if I should create a new partition from C drive and copy windows XP cd into that and then do an installation from partition.
However, my biggest fear is that (and this comes from past experience) after I create a partition with Acronis software, windows will fail to bootup because of MBR error. Now the normal solution for fixing MBR is to run the Win XP cd and fixMBR from there. Again, no cd drive, so that is out of the question and would ultimately mean that computer would fail to bootup.
Can anyone please recommend how to go about creating a partition without encountering the dreaded MBR error and installing XP from a partition?
I hope someone can help me here.
I have a Toshiba Protege 3500 (info:http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/toshiba3500_xp_tablet.htm) with Windows Tablet 2005 installed. Long story short, I gave the laptop to my brother who got virus on it. It was lying about and now Ive decided to resuscitate it back to life with a new installation of Windows XP Tablet. I have windows xp tablet cds (not the Toshiba restore ones) but I have a few problems.
1- There is no CD drive. Protege 3500 are notoriously incompatible with external cd drives and only a select (Toshiba) few are boot compatible and they cost upto £80+ on ebay.
2- USB bootup (and SD card) is also out of the question as the Bios does not support it.
The good news is that the laptop as it is right now, does load Win XP tablet. I am wondering if if I should create a new partition from C drive and copy windows XP cd into that and then do an installation from partition.
However, my biggest fear is that (and this comes from past experience) after I create a partition with Acronis software, windows will fail to bootup because of MBR error. Now the normal solution for fixing MBR is to run the Win XP cd and fixMBR from there. Again, no cd drive, so that is out of the question and would ultimately mean that computer would fail to bootup.
Can anyone please recommend how to go about creating a partition without encountering the dreaded MBR error and installing XP from a partition?