Annoying Puzzle

[Logan1]

i have another thread on this and while it has garnered ideas none have helped. i realized though that this is quite a puzzle and if there is anyone out the like me they would like to try their hand at the challenge so here is my problem:

i'm trying to format my hard drive on my laptop to switch to Ubuntu
my XP home is on the hard drive i'm trying to reformat so i cannot format while i run windows
my computer refuses to boot from a cd-rom
i have no floppy drive
and my BIOS gives no option for booting from USB

can you solve the mystery???

hmmmm...maybe i should come up with a prize.....

 

[Jamxx]

Booting from LAN, perhaps? I know my motherboard supports that, but I have no idea how that works.

I wonder if you can get external floppy drives that hook in through the LAN port... Nah!

 

[Logan1]

sounds like a possible answer but i don't know how to do that.

 

[Jamxx]

Well... you might want to check it out! Search around on Google or something, I'm sure there's some information about it.