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December 20th 03, 02:57 PM
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HELP;installing OS on floppiless laptop ?
Hi all,
my situation is that i have a laptop which doesnt have a floppy drive. It does have a CD and also the usual stuff like serial/parallel/usb ports. Can anyone suggest the best/easiest way to access the HD on the laptop,format it and instal something basic like dos 6.0? ta joe 
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December 20th 03, 06:22 PM
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:57:38 +0000, tarquinlinbin
wrote: Hi all, my situation is that i have a laptop which doesnt have a floppy drive. It does have a CD and also the usual stuff like serial/parallel/usb ports. Can anyone suggest the best/easiest way to access the HD on the laptop,format it and instal something basic like dos 6.0? ta joe Make a bootable CD with all you need on it. Most popular burning apps like Nero or Adaptec/Roxio will do this. You could instead get a laptop IDE adapter like the following to access it in a desktop system: http://66.216.68.88/details.htm?productid=4A-1097 Dave
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December 20th 03, 06:28 PM
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:22:51 GMT, kony wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:57:38 +0000, tarquinlinbin wrote: Hi all, my situation is that i have a laptop which doesnt have a floppy drive. It does have a CD and also the usual stuff like serial/parallel/usb ports. Can anyone suggest the best/easiest way to access the HD on the laptop,format it and instal something basic like dos 6.0? ta joe Make a bootable CD with all you need on it. Most popular burning apps like Nero or Adaptec/Roxio will do this. You could instead get a laptop IDE adapter like the following to access it in a desktop system: http://66.216.68.88/details.htm?productid=4A-1097 Dave Hmm,how do i make a bootable CD ?,i already have Nero BTW. ta
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December 20th 03, 08:12 PM
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:28:43 +0000, tarquinlinbin
wrote: Hmm,how do i make a bootable CD ?,i already have Nero BTW. ta With Nero running, it's File- New- [scroll down to] CDROM (boot)- [browse to source of boot image data/floppy]- ["New" button on top right]
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