If your old computer already has a Windows operating system installed then
you should be able to run the setup from within the running Windows. Just
copy the files from the disk (via your network as you mentioned) onto your
internal hard drive, or a usb memory key if you have a large enough one and
run the setup from there.

That's how I installed Windows 7 beta onto my computer. You do not need to
be able to boot from anything other than your internal hard drive.

"Ant" wrote in message
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Hello.

I have an old Dell Dimension 8250 test PC that I would like to install
Vista onto. However, it has no DVD drives. I cannot even boot from
external USB drives (3.5" disk drive, external HDDs, and DVD burner
drive -- CMOS doesn't see them and found out PC doesn't support bootable
USB devices).

However, I do have enough HDD space (30 GB free on second partition) to
copy Vista DVD (or make an ISO file) onto it through network (will take a
while).

Thank you in advance.
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