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Done!!! - Re-installing on laptop with no CD drive
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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. |
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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. -- 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. |
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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. |
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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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