anyedie Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Just nick one out of your main PC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Not sure how you are holding for cash but they aren't that dear to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 25$ Au will pick u up a player, 40$ a burner, anywho, when booting the USB DVD Drive, did u try USB boot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Find the dodgey end of town, and buy a cheap white label DVD drive. or find the back end of an open truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freakish Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Might not work so nicely with windows though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Zaius Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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