loading os with out fdd or cd

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laptop portege 3480

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mjmx4 April 4, 2007 at 16:26:13 Pacific
Specs: 98se or xp I don't care!, celereon 600

Ok I have been reading about this for days and it is making me crazy! I have a laptop no floppy no cd, one usb one pcmia. I have access to another laptop with all of the above. and I also bought a usb hard drive enclosure kit so connect to main computer. I have tried to put a 98 bootdisk on the hdd and then load win 98 files to hdd. when put back in portege it says insert system disk... agggg
I have fdisk and format/ s then copy files from win98se bootdisk then mkdir win 98 and copied files from win 98 on cd. then change to portege but I always get the same answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm off to drink a few beers and calm my frazzled nerves. Please be specific. I am not good with dos!

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TopFarmer April 4, 2007 at 19:38:35 Pacific

Run fdisk select option #4 and check if the hdd partition is set Active. Till it is it will not boot.

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Mechanix2Go April 4, 2007 at 20:46:40 Pacific

Also, when you formatted did you use /s ?

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DAVEINCAPS April 4, 2007 at 23:03:43 Pacific

As TopFarmer says, the partition is probably not set active. If one HD on a system is already active fdisk won't allow you to set a second one active.
Reconnect the HD to the working computer, go into its cmos/bios setup and set the first drive to NONE. Then boot it with a 98 bootdisk and run fdisk. Fdisk should only see one drive and allow you to set it active.

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Mechanix2Go April 6, 2007 at 00:33:04 Pacific