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My cd rom wont read and it wont work i h

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Name: Isaac Zimunya
Date: May 2, 2002 at 18:41:35 Pacific
Subject: My cd rom wont read and it wont work i h
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i bought 3 dell latitude lt laptops and they had no operating system on them and i tried everything i tried i tried i would like to know what i can do im in dos what can i do i need help pliz its so hard to return such small pc's pliz and i would like toknow how to copy files from A: to c: when there is no os .thanx


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Response Number 1
Name: rondroid
Date: May 3, 2002 at 02:38:04 Pacific
Subject: My cd rom wont read and it wont work i h
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If your laptops have a floppy drive then use a Windows 98 (or equivalent) boot-disk. Then you can either copy the setup files directly to the hard-drive or run the setup from the CD.

Ron


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Name: Isaac``
Date: May 3, 2002 at 09:21:23 Pacific
Subject: My cd rom wont read and it wont work i h
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Yes how do i copy those files when the cdrom looks like it has no drivers its external and the floppy is external there is no operating system its just a blank thinhg if i tytpe dir in c: theres nuthing totally nuthing.

thanx


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Response Number 3
Name: Josh Lange
Date: May 4, 2002 at 00:12:42 Pacific
Subject: My cd rom wont read and it wont work i h
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If using dos get a boot diska nd but the "sys" command on it, and type "sys c:"


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