Create a new bootable hard drive with XP - without CD reader

All,
   Since couple of years my Satellite CD reader is dead. Most probably an hardware failure, the CDs are spinning but that's all ... unbale to read them at all.
    As the PC is getting slower and slower, I decided to refomat and re_image it.
    As I can't use the CD reader, I have to create the bootable hard drive (with the XP-Home edition provided when I bought the laptop)  using another machine (A DELL or a Toshiba Portege I have also at home).
    For that I remove the hard drive fro, the satellite and put it in the other machine, and then reinstall windows ont it.
    Everything went fine,  untilI plug back the satellite hard drive to its original host (Satellite machine.
    It refuse to boot and stop just after loading the MUP.Sys drivers  (classique as the hardware is diffrent)
   My questions are :
   1. Any way I can create a proper bootable drive for Satellite 5105-S501 in such conditions (any place I can download  an image for it)
   2. I can' enter the BIOS (ESC key do not let me in, F1 and F12 same ...). Any way to force to enter in the BIOS
       ESC key just show me the message : Type F1 for default :_°
Thanks
P.

Malcolm:
Thanks so much for replying to my question! I am new to MAC and have Tiger and Windows XP on separate drives. I will be removing the drive with Tiger and putting in a new drive to load Leopard and I wondered how that would effect accessing Windows XP since the Windows drive will remain in the system. Is there anything I need to do with bootcamp, since Windows was loaded using the Beta version of bootcamp, and bootcamp icon currently shows in the Windows XP taskbar. Tiger was pre-loaded when the computer was purchased. In fact I had to backdate the beta bootcamp version in order to get it to work. I hope this is not asking too much, but I wondered if there would any problem with Windows after the Leopard load.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

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