Uses for laptop without hard drive?

Run a live cd system in it and use a usb disk as your hard drive.

If you can access the BIOS, change boot settings to boot from USB/CD, then stick a portable OS onto USB/CD and you've got a working system, you can do this with windows/linux.

Use those OS which don't require HD...like Ubuntu,Backtrack 3 and many more!!!

just buy a used harddrive for a few bucks and use it for running some pr storm and things that need proxys on it.

i`ve got a pentium 4 laptop sitting here and i use it just for running some tools trough proxys.

this way i don`t have to run 3 tools at the same time on my main system if i i need to. saves a lot of system recourses on your main system.

i hate it when it takes more then half a seccond to open a window on my pc.. for some reason i`m really anoyed by a computer that doesn`t respond instantly to my commands . and since i spend a lot of time behind my pc it must run like a dream every time and always.

DutchRebel said:

just buy a used harddrive for a few bucks and use it for running some pr storm and things that need proxys on it.

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That's his problem it doesn't recognise a harddrive buying another one would
just be a waste of money.

Just toss it, lets face it, the price of laptops today make them almost disposable for the # of years you get out of them. I bought 2 for my kids for Christmas this year and they are faster and have more storage than the desktop I bought my wife a year or so ago!

I was tempted to buy that $198 laptop at best buy but being the kind of guy that I am I love not having to throw good things worth cash away. So I took some advice and bought a 8gb flash drive, trying the hp utility to make it bootable, found out how to change the bios on the machine to recognize the drive as a hard disk so I might be in business tonight. I kind of like the thought of going through airport security with a laptop that has no hard drive in it.

This is so strange because the same thing happened to my HP last week! Except I put the HD in another laptop and it works fine, put a new drive in the HP and it just dont recognize it. The HD controller must have went bad. I've been wondering what to do with mine as well cuz its still a dam good computer (only about a year old and I paid like $900 for it). Anyway, I just put windows 7 on an external USB drive and it works great. Its a little slower but will work fine to run some of my BH tools on it that just sit there and run all night long... Go get you some proxies and some account creator tools and let her hum along for ya over in the corner someplace doing some dirty work.