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installing w98 on laptop with no floppy
Name: herb Date: July 17, 2002 at 12:38:18 Pacific
Comment:
I bought a thinkpad on ebay without a floppy drive and wonder if there's any way I can install win98 on it. It has a cd but hardrive is wiped. So only way I can think of is with direct cable from my desktop is this possible? I would have to fdisk it from my desktop. do you think it will work?
Name: Brent Date: July 17, 2002 at 12:59:15 Pacific
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You might try going into the BIOS and put the CD-ROM drive as the first boot device, then see if you can boot off the Windows 98 disk.
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Response Number 2
Name: dell Date: July 17, 2002 at 16:08:59 Pacific
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If the above suggestion doesn't work (some win98 CDs are not bootable). Create a bootable CD with the 'Win98' folder from an install CD on it.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave357 Date: July 17, 2002 at 21:22:49 Pacific
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If your laptop doesn't support booting from the CD, you're basically stuck with only one other option:
Pull the HD out of the laptop. Install it temporarily into a PC as a slave. Sys the drive to make it bootable. Copy the Win98 directory onto the HD. Put the HD back into the laptop & run setup from the HD.
In order to do this, you'll need a 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch Harddrive Adapter. If you can't find one locally, you can order one here:
Connecting to a PC & using Laplink or a similar program to transfer the files sounds like a good idea, but without a floppy drive, you have no way of installing Laplink onto the laptop.
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