Satellite A25-S279: How to reinstall XP with Ghost DVD without internal drive

I have tosbhia satellite a25-s279 and the toshiba ghost dvd.
My internal dvd drive is broken (w/ some difficult, it can play some audio cd's some of the time. it doesn't recognize any cd-rom nor dvd). I also have external pioneer dvd writer dvr-s606 (connect to satellite via usb). I want to reinstall xp.
The Bios is 1.10, the chipset is ALi M1672 rev 0. You have option of booting off HDD, FDD, CD-ROM, and LAN.
I think you also have option of bootin off pc-card, but this is not in Bios.
It appears (from reading these forums) that my satellite does not support booting off the external drive, so i can't use the ghost disc?
I found another website suggesting make usb stick bootable and load xp from the memory stick.
However, reading these forums, it also appears that this is not possible w/ my satellite?
I guess I can buy a replacement internal dvd drive, but these seem extremely unreliable, and i already have functioning external drive.
any other advice would be appreciated.
thanks.

>It appears (from reading these forums) that my satellite does not support booting off the external drive, so i can't use the ghost disc?
That's correct. The external USB CD/DVD drive is not bootable and you will be not able to boot from the CD
> I found another website suggesting make USB stick bootable and load Xp from the memory stick
No, its not possible to boot from the USB stick. BIOS does not support this boot option
I think the only way is to buy an internal supported drive and then to boot from the CD.
You could also try to boot from the LAN but this is not easy and you will need an RIS server.
I think this is not a really solution.

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