I don´t have internal cd, only external(usb)

Try to format the drive!
WARNING! This procedure will erase all files on the drive! Please vote!

HI,
1. You need to connect the USB optical drive to the laptop.
2. Restart the laptop at the Dell logo screen press the F12 key a couple of times
3. You would see the one time boot menu.using the down arrow is select USB
4. Insert the windows xp cd in the optical drive
5. Press the space bar when you see the message "Press any key to boot from the cd"
6. Follow the screen prompts after the same.

In case you need more help on how to reinstall the OS . Please revert back

Thanks
Proton

Yes you can use a usb external cd/dvd-rom to any operating system as long as the bios allows you to, most bios's have the capability.

When the external usb drive has been connected power up the mechine, in post it should tell what to press to enter your boot menu without entering your bios and choose usb drive to boot.

Tricky one, ive you have a external usb cdrom drive , maybe, or if you can take hardrive out and set it up on another laptop install your xp and also place copy of all drivers required onto it, then put back into the toshiba., dont know what else could help you here. hope this helps in some way.

Fujitsu seems to have secretly added a Hardware black list for Booting USB DVD-rw.CD-rw drives.

I have a Stylistic ST5032D slate.

Your either going to have to buy fujitsu's over priced external drive or buy fujitsu's over priced dock.

Or What I do is Bought WinImage or any other software that allows writing a ISO image to USB flash drive, this should almost always work.

I had to install Windows 7 on my tablet this way.

Choose your poison.

Good Luck.

Fujitsu seems to have secretly added a Hardware black list for Booting USB DVD-rw.CD-rw drives that are not Fujitsu Branded.

I have a Stylistic ST5032D slate.

Your either going to have to buy fujitsu's over priced external drive or buy fujitsu's over priced dock.

Or What I do is Bought WinImage or any other software that allows writing a ISO image to USB flash drive, this should almost always work.

I had to install Windows 7 on my tablet this way.

Choose your poison.

Good Luck.

Your laptop is apparently unable to boot up off an external usb source. Only newer equipment has this provision in the bios. Since you cannot boot up from usb the only way you can recover your unit or do a clean reinstall or repair of xp is to replace the internal drive that is allegedly defective.

Replacing the optical drive is fairly easy and does not involve massive disassembly of your laptop. And any cheap drive will work provided it has the same physical configuration as the old one.

enter in bios and disable ide or sata on which your harddrive detectd.
then simply install win xp in external usb harddrive.

Hl

You must buy asus external drive its worth

Harry

Get into boot setup and change the 1st boot device as hard disk