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FINAL PRODUCT

Yes I am so glad it worked, and now, i learned something new about caddys. All that blood, sweat, frustration, pain, tears, and we all got it working. I'm glad yall stayed with me on this topic, i just want to say THANK YOU EVERYBODY. From here on out, I'll be looking at some other lightweight...

MAN OH MAN DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS, IT FINALLY BOOTED TO LINUX MINT! The caddy method worked,

Forwarding a few days ahead, if i were to do this I how would i go from disconnecting the drives on my computer?(and which one should i disconnect? )

so Linux mint tara cinnamon will be good? (32 bit)?

lmaooo I was about to throw this laptop out of frustration but i have a feeling this will work!

welp i got the caddy with me now im going to try later on and see if this method works or not edit: PLugged it in the caddy and the hard drive seems to be working all fine!

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@Lord Boltar this seems promising, I haven't tried pen drive linux yet, I'll give it a shot and see if it works which i doubt, because we tried many times with the usb and ends up not working, but lets see.

yeah that will save me money and i'll just buy the SATA caddy instead of the SATA/IDE.

not sure all i have with me are DVDs, im going to try @KGIII caddy method and see if that works.

what im about to do, guess what when, installed the windows xp 32 bit on the dvd and insert on the vostro, it still says operating system not found lmaooo,this computer is so weird.\ Time to do the caddy method.

alright ill try that when i get the chance. yup this is one weird laptop... Thanks!

alright then we're going into the caddy direction then, Will it be okay if I disconnect my drivers on my computer when doing this, or completely remove? Is this the one you want me to get?or this

Yes I am certain it can read DVDs, the optical drive model is a PBDS DVD+-RW DS-8W1P(in case anyone want to do any confirmations) Yes I might proceed with the caddy method and go in that direction. According to this thread TLDR: "might be a faulty CD rom, just because it's recognized doesn't...

took out the hard drive out, it was surprisingly easily... no screw driver needed edit: if i end up trying this method do you recommend me buying this external drive caddy? edit 2: Type of hard drive i have is here

The second method you mention, I might be able to do, but all I need is a screwdriver for the vostro 1000,how would that work since the hard drive has a corrupted windows xp OS? I disabled the quick boot and turned on boot diagnostics,and these are the results edit: still says OS not found.

no I dont think i have ao6, it just says 2.6.3 in the bios version edit: heres picture of the bios setup(not sure if i did this before but here)

Heres the video @KGIII

Yes I can record a video of what im doing during the boot sequence. Also update on the post: Currently right now I am using imgburn to write the ISO image onto a blank dvd. InfraRecorder was giving me trouble because every time i would write the ISO image to my dvd there would be no data after...