Impossibly frusturating bunny problem lamb cakes

[anyedie]

Im trying to set up a media center with my xbox 360, so I took a spare computer and I want to put windows media center on it. The problem is that its a old computer and doesnt have a DVD-R on it. I borrowed a friends external DVD-R and thought If I installed it on the computer then I could just go into the bios, and tell it to boot from that first, but it doesnt find it. Is there any way I can boot a DVD on a computer without a DVD drive?

[VaKo]

Just nick one out of your main PC?

[anyedie]

the problem is that I dont have a main PC, only a laptop and an old PC I want to put the Media center on.

[wh1t3 and n3rdy]

Not sure how you are holding for cash but they aren't that dear to buy.

[Deveant]

25$ Au will pick u up a player, 40$ a burner, anywho, when booting the USB DVD Drive, did u try USB boot?

[VaKo]

Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive.

[Deveant]

Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive.

or find the back end of an open truck

[wh1t3 and n3rdy]

Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive.

or find the back end of an open truck

Stand behind and wait for shit to fall out lmao

[anyedie]

Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive.

or find the back end of an open truck

I like that one. But I was wondering if there were anyway to install an OS remotely or (since the old PC has 2 HDD's) maybe some way to virutralize it but if that doesnt exist, it looks like more scrapping for me. :cry: :D

[Freakish]

Put your hdd in a pc with a dvd drive in it, then just install to your hdd and put it back in the mc computer.

[VaKo]

Might not work so nicely with windows though.

[Dr Zaius]

With XP you could just copy the setup files off the CD to the harddrive and then boot from any boot disk that gives you a DOS like environment (any old Windows 98 disks you have lying around etc or just grab something from www.bootdisk.com) and then run "winnt" in the "i386" directory to start the setup process.

The same method might work with MCE, although I'm not sure of how MCE differs from XP Home/Pro as far as the installation goes. I can't guarantee it will work though, you may need some command line switches on winnt to install the MCE components.