My Dell Netbook is not recognizing the wireless adapter. I want to reinstall XP to verify if this is a hardware or software issue but I don't know how. I have the Reinstallation CD I got with it, but there is no CD drive! How am I supposed to use this CD to reinstall?
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Jump to Postdoes this laptop have a reqular NIC? with an RJ45 connector? ie. can you CABLE it into a network / hub/switch? if so... What I would do is use the network connection to copy over a partition manipulation program. MAKE a partition separate from the main drive. Then copy over …
Jump to PostI forgot to explicitly mention... IF you are networking (or somehow cabling the laptop to another filesource) you have to (on a network) share out the cd drive of the OTHER pc... that way you can READ the cd and it's files... from the other pc, TO your laptop. There …
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