Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 11:41:21 -0700
From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Catch 22 ?? - Please Advise - Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD
Upgrade
Thanks Philip for your usual detailed reply!
One thing that's not fully clear to me still.
Do I need to have any Toshiba original floppy disk or CD for installing new
OS and/or new hard drive?
Or does Win98SE or later OS's have everything you need on the OS install CD?
Appreciate someone clarifying this.
Thanks,
Mark
on 5/22/04 4:41 AM, Philip Nienhuis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:40:40 +0200
> From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] Catch 22 ?? - Please Advise - Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD
> Upgrade
>
> Mark Srebnik wrote:
> :
> <snip>
> :
>> Floppy Drive doesn't work on one of the Librettos. Looks like
>> floppy drive drive files are missing!
>
> When you put the floppycard in a PCMCIA slot, put a bootable DOS floppy
> inside and boot, the system should boot from the floppy. From then on
> you can access the HD.
> If not, check that in the BIOS setup the booting sequence is FDD->HDD:
> Power on, hold the Esc key, if needed type in the supervisor password &
> press F1 key. (If you got no supervisor password, ask previous owner
> and/or search the archive for links to the parallel port HW dongle which
> allows to clear to password.)
> If you still can't boot from PCMCIA floppy drive, your floppy drive
> and/or PCMCIA hardware is broken.
> (A little background: the Lib100/110 hardware (i.e., 16 bit BIOS
> routines) sees the floppy as an integral part of the system if it is
> attached while booting.
> Win98 and up, and many other, non-M$ operating systems, take PCMCIA over
> from the BIOS after a while during their booting stage; DOS and Win95 do
> not.)
>
>> So how do I install the floppy drive driver when the floppy drive doesn't
>> work and I don't have a CD-ROM drive working either, since I can't use
>> floppy drive....????
>>
>> Feels like a Catch 22 situation...
>
> Put the floppy drive in and try to _boot_ from it. See above.
>
>> Meanwhile, I did test the floppy drive on the other Libretto and it works
>> fine....
>
> That would imply that the floppy drive is OK.
> Hopefully the other Lib can boot from it. If not, the PCMCIA hardware is
> broken.
> Only option left then is to put the HD in another PC, proceed as
> outlined below, put HD back in Lib and from then on interchange files
> through networking or parallel port CD/Zip drive.
>
> :
> <snip>
> :
>> Since as of now, I do not have any original Toshiba floppy disks or CD's I'm
>> wondering if that creates any issues for doing this. Hopefully, I'll be
>> receiving some disks or CD's from the guy I bought from, but who knows....
>>
>> So my question is can I:
>>
>> Option A) Do a clean install of the new OS on a new hard drive (without any
>> Toshiba Libretto floppies or CD's)?
>
> Put the HD in a desktop (thru a 3.5" to 2.5" converter) and
> => *just _copy_ all installation files* <=
> to somewhere on the HD - do not install the OS in another PC!
> Windows 9x : <CDROM>:\Win9x
> Win2K: <CDROM>:\I386
>
>> Option B) Make an image of the current hard drive and then install it onto
>> the new hard drive and then upgrade
>> OS over old OS?
>
> It is always better to install anew. Heaven knows what stuff the
> previous owner has put/left on it....
>
> Philip
>
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