XP SP3 reinstall problem

I have bought a new laptop and am trying to clean up my old one, so I can give it to my mum.

My old laptop is a Latitude E6400. And am trying to reinstall with XP SP3. There are 2 hard drives, and a DVD drive.

The DVD drive is playing up, so I decided to copy the contents of the disc to the D hard drive. And ran the setup from there.

Now, when I restart the computer, it goes straight into the Windows setup routine, and I get nvrd32.sys missing error. Googling says I should get the file and press F6 and insert the disk in the A drive. I probably could find the file if I tried hard enough, but I don't have an A drive.

What do I do?

I can't even go back and relaunch a safe Windows, as it goes straight into the setup, and there's no boot option to choose between launching XP Pro and XP Pro setup.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

 

You can use your installation disk to make customized (with added driver) installation disk using tool named nLite:
nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation