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Load OS on laptop with inop CD

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Name: sterno
Date: October 22, 2003 at 07:48:32 Pacific
Subject: Load OS on laptop with inop CD
OS: Win 98
CPU/Ram: 300Mhz/640KB

Comment:

I have an 5 yr old Compaq 1250 laptop and have just reformatted the hard drive. The CD drive doesn't work so I can only boot from a floppy. I have a Zip CDRW that connects through USB. Can I use that to reload the Win 98 OS? Or any other way to load the OS? I have the original CDs. Thanks! Sterno

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Response Number 1

Name: Don Miller
Date: October 22, 2003 at 08:17:32 Pacific

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Maybe the easiest way is to put the drive in a desktop with an adaptor and copy the Win98 folder to the hard drive and reinstall from there on the laptop. If you can get the USB drive to load from MS-DOS (probably by modifying CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT) you MIGHT be able to do it from there. Sometimes USB support is tricky from DOS.
Don

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Response Number 2

Name: survivor
Date: October 22, 2003 at 08:56:18 Pacific

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make sure your laptop setup prog is set to "load from cdrom at startup". then just use the recovery cd. it will auto load the cdrom drivers.

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Response Number 3

Name: sterno
Date: October 22, 2003 at 09:05:29 Pacific

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Don,
Thanks! I'll try that first by attempting to take the drive out and hooking it up to my desktop.
Sterno
Survivor,
Thanks, but the problem is the CD drive is not working at all. I checked setup first and its set to load from cdrom.
Sterno

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