Howdy Gaffer-
So let me get this straight, I have a machine with a writable CDROM(with
Roxio and Nero) and I have a floppy disk(bootdisk) that came with my
windows98SE CD. All I have to do is burn the contents of the bootdisk(the
floppy) and the contents of the Win98 folder to a new CD and tell the
writing software to make the new CD bootable and then it will boot up my
solo5300 that has no floppy drive in it and I can then move forward in
fixing the new hard drive and installing windows? The solo5300 is already
set in the setups to boot from CDROM as its first priority.
Jim
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Look into Setup of laptop
Hi Jim,
Do you have a machine that can write a CD ?
Does this machine have a floppy drive ?
If so simply create a bootable floppy. It must be able to allow access
to the CD drive when you boot from it.
Copy the "Win98" folder to your hard disk.
User your writer software to make a new CD with the contents of the
"Win98" folder on it and tell the writing software to make the CD
bootable using the bootable floppy disk that you created.
HTH.
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:16, Jim Poer wrote:
> Gaffer-
> I have the driver for the CDROM that is in the Solo 5300 and I have
> the folder Win98. How do I create a bootable CD? I have tried to
> create one using some google searches(some of Bart's stuff), but I
> just ain't got it in the brain to do it right, or at least I am a tad
> confused. Thanks for the input.
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Gaffer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Look into Setup of laptop
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> If you can create a bootable CD with the CD driver and the contents
> of the "Win98" directory on it you will be able to clean install from
> the CD.
>
> Or if your machine can boot from USB and your USB thumb drive is big
> enough you can do the same trick.
>
> Or just boot from the USB thumb drive and install from the CD drive.
>
> Although I would prefer to copy the CD "Win98" folder to the hard
> drive and install from there !
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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