xCal

perhaps, if you build or connect your laptop to a network, you can
install vista. At least, this is obligatory on enterprises, but i dont know
how to do it.
Carlos.
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> My laptop has two partitions on its hard drive right now - there's a C
> partition with Windows XP and programs, and a K partition with my data
> (and My Documents is pointed to that). My plan is to reformat the C
> partition and install a clean copy of Vista to it, while keeping the K
> drive.
>
> The problem is that the laptop is physically a bit broken, so the DVD
> drive almost always refuses to data DVDs (oddly enough, it usually
> reads DVD movies and CDs just fine). I took my laptop to a friend's
> house, plugged into their network, and copied the contents of the
> Vista DVD to a folder on my K drive.
>
> I have a USB hard drive, but my BIOS won't boot off of it. I don't
> have a flash drive big enough to hold the 2.4GB of Vista either. So,
> what I'd like to do is run the installation from the K partition and
> install to a reformatted C partition. Does anyone know if this is
> possible? I guess there'd have to be some sort of trickery with
> setting the active partition as necessary, but I have a copy of
> Partition Magic 8 if that would help.
>
> I guess another possible solution would be some sort of bootable CD/
> flash drive that would be able to read and then "boot off" my USB hard
> drive. Anyone know of some (free) utility that could do that?
>
> Then, last resort would be to find an external DVD drive, but they
> cost more than I paid for the Vista academic upgrade, so I'd probably
> just not bother.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Eric
>