I have a tablet laptop acer c100 no floppy no cdrom. I have the recovery cd's 3 + system disk. I took out hdd and used a usb adapter and put it in my pc. I formatted, fdisk and loaded win98se. Now it has 98 on it, and the drivers for an external backpack cdrom. I can't use the recovery cd's as it won't boot using the cdrom. ( even if I change it in the bios) I tried loading the dos drivers as well and it still won't boot. Ok so I tried accessing the system disk ghostro and then put in the recovery cd. It starts a dos program but won't find the ghost files. I installed ghost on the d drive and it won't find a ghost file either. This is making me crazy! Thanks for the help. Marilyn

External Backpacks Optical Drives are not bootable, you need MS-DOS or WinDOS installed on the hard drive and install XP from that. Though if you have put the hard drive in another PC it will not work when transferred back to the Tablet due to difference in hardware. Surely the Tablet Hard Drive had a Recovery Partition ?? which you have wiped ?? This guide may give you some hints how to deal with swappable drives, which you can adjust to suit your situation: http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/msdosn...

The hdd died so its a new one. I put dos 6.1 on it. The problem is changing the files to a.gho extension. I did it before as a test, but didn't write it down and now I can't remember how.

Also I know how to install win xp I did that already but it didn't have tablet functionality. I put xp on it and then thought I would load the drivers but it all worked except the tablet part.

This article will explain how to use the recovery CDs when you don't have a bootable CD rom drive: http://personal.ryantadams.com/2008... I wrote it for the M200 tablet pc, but will work with any computer that allows for network booting. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Thanks I was hoping that if I changed the .crc files to ghost I could access the i386 files from the backpack cdrom. I used ghost and did this before as a test but now I can't figure it our. I may have to try the network boot.

I would recommend doing the network and using the recovery cds. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com