mini: Hi, currently found that the mini laptop sale in the market now most are without CD drive. Let's say after use a certain period the windows have a problem and intend to format it and re-install, i wonder how to do the installation without a cd drive. Cheers.How to install windows xp on mini laptop?You'd either have to purchase an external CD drive (~100 bucks) or you'd have to have it on a thumb or external drive that you can put into your USB slot.How to install windows xp on mini laptop?usually these current machines have a hidden partition w/ the xp install files in them and you just need the keystroke combination to access that partition, like alt+f11, or some such, during start-up. also, most netbooks (it sounds like this is what your asking about) don't use xp, either vista home or linux is the choices mostly available these days on these machines.How to install windows xp on mini laptop?Eventually you will need an external CD Drive,, if you ever want want to load any new programs