HELP!!! I got my hands on this old Compaq M300 laptop, with a clean installed but corrupt (read no valid license!!) Windows XP installation on it that will NOT let you log in unless you enter a valid key, which I do not have or know of course (unless someone knows a way to get around this??) The problem is the laptop is of the small variety, so it has no CD Rom, and its BIOS is quite old so it will not allow me to boot up from a USB or from an optical drive, only ethernet or multibay! I wonder if I can boot it up from ethernet and be able to install any OS like linux so that the laptop is actually of some use to me?? Is there any other workable way I should try?
ya but taking the hard drive out and hooking it up to another computer to install a fresh OS is probably my last option, since I would have to buy a hard drive enclosure to hook it up via USB first.
