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Old September 14th 08, 06:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general,microsoft.public.win2000.general
Alpha
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Default Done!!! - Re-installing on laptop with no CD drive

"Alpha" wrote in message
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We need to re-install Windows 98 SE or ME or 2K-Pro on a laptop that has
its
CD drive internal connection damaged. The floppy drive works though.



The task went off absolutely smoothly. Windows 2000 Pro was installed off
the hard drive.
The HDD was formatted and "sys"ed and then a folder created to copy the
entire contents of the install CD on another machine.
Did not even need the boot floppy to get to the hard drive prompt.
Just once the set-up process asked to verify the location of the install
files.
Thanks for the encouragement and very helpful information.
Regards and God Bless.


  #12  
Old September 14th 08, 06:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general,microsoft.public.win2000.general
Jeff Richards
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Default Re-installing on laptop with no CD drive

OP states that the machine originally had W98. Therefore, there's every
chance that the laptop will be old enough for that sort of compatibity to be
an issue.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Top-poster Jeff Richards wrote:

There is no guarantee that a drive formatted in one machine will be
recognised as validly formatted when installed in another machine,


What are you smoking?

The *only* problem I've ever seen regarding formatting and subsequent OS
installation was when I created a FAT-32 partition to install XP on
using OnTrack's Disk Manager and it gave a choice for OS installation
and I didn't think it mattered so I chose Windows-ME and the install
continuously failed until I re-partitioned using the "XP" choice.

and that is especially true if the machines are very different,
eg a laptop and a desktop.


Bull crap.

If you take any machine, attach a hard drive to it, boot DOS with a
win-98 floppy containing fdisk and format, and then partition, format
and sys the hard drive, that drive will have a logical structure that
will be no different than if it was partitioned and formatted on any
other system and it will boot into dos when connected to any other
system.

This assumes that the bios is compatible with the size of the drive, and
that the user hasn't entered any crazy-ass head and sector information
in the cmos setup. If the drive is less than 32 gb, then it's a
non-issue. If either system motherboard is less than 6 years old, then
it's a non-issue.



  #13  
Old September 14th 08, 08:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Dan
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Default Re-installing on laptop with no CD drive

I support Jeff in this case 98 Guy because he has always been helpful to me
in the past.

"Jeff Richards" wrote:

OP states that the machine originally had W98. Therefore, there's every
chance that the laptop will be old enough for that sort of compatibity to be
an issue.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Top-poster Jeff Richards wrote:

There is no guarantee that a drive formatted in one machine will be
recognised as validly formatted when installed in another machine,


What are you smoking?

The *only* problem I've ever seen regarding formatting and subsequent OS
installation was when I created a FAT-32 partition to install XP on
using OnTrack's Disk Manager and it gave a choice for OS installation
and I didn't think it mattered so I chose Windows-ME and the install
continuously failed until I re-partitioned using the "XP" choice.

and that is especially true if the machines are very different,
eg a laptop and a desktop.


Bull crap.

If you take any machine, attach a hard drive to it, boot DOS with a
win-98 floppy containing fdisk and format, and then partition, format
and sys the hard drive, that drive will have a logical structure that
will be no different than if it was partitioned and formatted on any
other system and it will boot into dos when connected to any other
system.

This assumes that the bios is compatible with the size of the drive, and
that the user hasn't entered any crazy-ass head and sector information
in the cmos setup. If the drive is less than 32 gb, then it's a
non-issue. If either system motherboard is less than 6 years old, then
it's a non-issue.




  #14  
Old September 14th 08, 11:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general,microsoft.public.win2000.general
John John (MVP)
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Default Done!!! - Re-installing on laptop with no CD drive

Alpha wrote:

"Alpha" wrote in message
...

We need to re-install Windows 98 SE or ME or 2K-Pro on a laptop that has
its
CD drive internal connection damaged. The floppy drive works though.



The task went off absolutely smoothly. Windows 2000 Pro was installed off
the hard drive.
The HDD was formatted and "sys"ed and then a folder created to copy the
entire contents of the install CD on another machine.
Did not even need the boot floppy to get to the hard drive prompt.
Just once the set-up process asked to verify the location of the install
files.
Thanks for the encouragement and very helpful information.
Regards and God Bless.


You're welcome, glad to see that things went well.

John
 




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