My hdd on my hp laptop is dying a slow death, so i bought a new one went to install it and my laptop ecided it didnt want to recognize my dvd drive, so i went into the bios and of course the crappy bios doesnt allow booting from usb. I would just install xp using another computer but this hdd is ide, and all my other computers are SATA. Any ideas? i can occasionally get the old hdd to workk so i could reflash the bios, but im not sure what bios is compatable.