Anyway to reinstall Vista without any use of Cd-Drive?

[fafan111]

Hi
I was wondering is there any way to do a clean install of Vista without using cd-drive at all? (I really don't want to spend more money for an external cd drive)
I've been searching the forums and it is possible to boot from USB drive but some of the guides say that I need to make recovery disk or something before I actually start the process. But then to make the recovery disk, I would need a cd-drive..maybe there is no way

does anyone have a link? maybe I missed a thread or some sort..

[Stevesoura]

Im not sure if that is possible but I have never tried. I would really recomment just to buy a cheap cd-rom or a few bucks more cd-r/dvd. They got some cheap ones on ebay.

[AtleO]

Hi,

just use this guide.

http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/12/instal ... flash.html

Works great, and faster than using cd/dvd.

Best Regards,

Atle