How do you connect a laptop to a PC if the laptop does not have an OS and the PC runs XP?

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install xp on the laptop

no os. no workie

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You can do this. But how do you mean "connect"? if your wanting to share files.. then heres a way

if the laptop has a floppy drive and a network card you can make a network bootdisk to boot the laptop and connect to the laptop using eithernet . This will allow you to access shares on the desktop and u can copy over files from the laptop to the desktop but you cant access the laptop from the desktop.

You can also try "LapLink" google it for more info.

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