boot problems
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Name: Gyorgy Fekete
Date: February 15, 1999 at 05:34:18 Pacific
Subject: boot problems
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Comment: Can anyone advice me on my kinky boot problem? I have got a laptop with a slightly damaged win98, a cd drive (not bootable), a damaged floppy drive, no network but parrallell cable connection to an other pc. I would like to make the laptop bootable (also or at least) with dos, so that I can get rid of win98 and install nt.
The system refuses me to sys or fdisk my hard drive referring to version mismatch. How can I do it without having a diskette drive?
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Response Number 1
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Name: colt
Date: February 24, 1999 at 12:18:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Have you tried to go (start,shutdown,restart in msdos mode)? this should be all that you need. You could also delete your windows directory, this would make the machine stop in dos and then you could do what you want
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Response Number 2
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Name: Ken Dyer
Date: March 6, 1999 at 12:27:42 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Want some advice? Fix the hardware before you even think of installing NT. You will need a bootable floppy to install NT unless you already have all the necessary files on the Laptop. By this i mean once you're stuck in DOS you will need drivers for the CD Rom. to get the NT installation files.
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Response Number 3
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Name: God
Date: May 25, 1999 at 13:26:49 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Take the drive out and put it into another laptop that is not 'crippled', copy your files to it, and put it back in yours. This is the only way you are gonna do it without booting off a disk or RPLing off a network.
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