thanks a lot. Kylde did help me immensely offlist. I will use this check list too!!!! Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gaffer Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Look into Setup of laptop Hi Jim, I note that others have re-iterated the procedure for you. Important things to check.!! 1/ The floppy boot disk must be able to allow the machine to access the CD drive. The boot disk that came with the Windows CD should be OK ! 2/ The contents of the "win98" folder on the Windows CD must be accessible to the CD burning program. This is why you must copy it to the hard drive. 3/ The CD burning program will expect to find a boot image that it can use to create a bootable CD. 4/ When you have managed to create this bootable CD you will be able to do a "DIR A:\" you should see various files including the "win98" folder. 5/ Since this is a new hard disc you will have to "fdisk" and "format" the drive. 6/ Once you have done that, after rebooting, type "A:\WIN98\SETUP" Follow the prompts !! Good Luck! It may seem difficult, but its not really !!! :-) On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:05, Jim Poer wrote: > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Gaffer > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > 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. -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
