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Installing XP with PCMCIA CD-ROM
Name: Jermaine Inniss Date: July 6, 2002 at 00:01:41 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Toshiba Portege 3440 and i am having a problem installing the drivers for my external cd -rom which connects to my toshiba portege using PCMCIA card it asks for a txtsetup.oem which the freecom drivers zip file do not include. these files were included in orginial set up disks provided with CD -ROM for NT can you help. am trying to install windows XP and it is asking for the CD ROM setup files please Help very urgent. Regards
jermaine go to the toshiba site,and check for xp drivers and bios for your laptop.
if there arent any and this is an older laptop win 2k maybe a better option for upgrading
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Response Number 2
Name: Andrei Tamas Date: July 8, 2002 at 12:44:56 Pacific
Reply:
Visit the Microsoft Website, Windows XP has a diskette installation which enables your PCMCIA CD-ROM. I forgot what it is called, but I think it was 4 diskettes that you create and boot with that enables the CD-ROM. You need to have a floppy drive for this to work of course.
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