booting from hardisk

[kcode]

my laptop's CD-ROM is not working properly (thanks to Lenovo y-410).
It is not recognizing anything && if ever it recognizes, it shows the media as blank.
As i cannot boot from CD, i am unable to install any OS on my laptop(currently using ubuntu hardy). Is their any way, such that i can install a new OS by first putting it in
the hard drive.

thanks

[scratman]

You could load it onto a USB stick and boot from that, although you may need to alter your boot sequence in your BIOS. What are you trying to install?

[kcode]

Any OS.

[cilkay]

You could install via PXE. For Windows, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943327.

For Linux, see http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_pxe_install_server.

[zvacet]

Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)