This may have been covered before, if so, bear with me. I have a clients laptop whose hard drive went bad. After replacing the hard drive, I have the cd which restores the operating system and drivers. I have since discovered there is a problem with the cdrom and it starts hanging during installation saying it cannot read from the cd. I did check the cd in another cdrom on a pc to make sure it was not the cd. No problems. My question is: can you copy the contents from the cd directly to the hard drive and run the setup from there?

I have tried using a standard xp home cd and was told the setup cannot be run from a dos prompt. If there is a way to do this, I would appreciate any help. The client cannot afford a new cdrom for this laptop since they are trying to work and go to medical school at the same time. I am doing this free of charge to them.