Help!!

[aydenkimballno]

 

I have an old 2003 HP Pavilion zx5000 running Windows XP Professional. Recently, It tried to boot and blue screened. No problem, I thought. I’ve been getting random blue screens and I’ve taught myself to ignore it. This time, I booted it up and it gave me an error saying something about lsass.exe Error. I tried safe mode, and I’ve tried putting in the XP disk, but the optical drive won’t detect it. Is there a program I can use to transport my disk to a flashdrive? Someone please let me know what I can do. Thanks! Please note that this is not my daily driver. I have this laptop because I have some old games from the XP era that I’d like play every once in a while. This laptop is also an exact one from when I was young so it means a lot to me.

[LogicalDrm]

Are you talking about installer CD or HDD? HDD you can connect to desktop with IDE to USB adapter (or SATA to USB if that's new enough laptop). With installer you can use ISO ripper like UltraISO and then use Rufus to make bootable USB. Though laptops BIOS needs to support booting from USB connect drives for that to work.

[aydenkimballno]

Thank you! I was talking about the XP CD.  This was pretty unexpected, so thank you so much! I had some cool stuff on my installation that I didn’t want to lose!