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My friend's laptop was in a car accident (he's fine!). However the laptop is very old its an Acer Aspire 1520 the CD-rom drive is broken and there is no floppy drive.
I made him a USB boot before I took a look at it and found that his BIOS cannot boot from USB. The only thing I have is a GRUB console but he is keen to just install XP (on USB) and use it just for Movies.
Is it possible using the GRUB console to get access to the USB and start the windows install? It's a tall order but I think this may be the way, or trying to install via LAN which I don't think will be achievable.
1I would try to get a USB cd/dvd drive and work on getting the computer to boot to that. – jmreicha – 2011-10-23T15:34:01.777
1This post shows the manual commands required - you just need to find out the drive number, which can be accomplished with GRUB's tab completion. – new123456 – 2011-10-23T15:38:38.737