A computer hard drive question
Post Fiend
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His laptop is too old to support booting from a USB device.
Ben, here's another thought - you may be able to flash the BIOS to a newer version that will support booting from a USB device. Worth a try.
Also, if it has a floppy drive you can create boot floppies and install from CD from there.
Ben, here's another thought - you may be able to flash the BIOS to a newer version that will support booting from a USB device. Worth a try.
Also, if it has a floppy drive you can create boot floppies and install from CD from there.
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Post Fiend
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I'm going to give all of these solutions a try.....as soon as I figure them out, and
the terminologies, and that's going to be a challenge for me.
Should be fun, right? RIGHT?
BTW, that site that I "supposedly" found, on my post #11, with the pics of that
connector thing, was actually posted by crera, on his post #8. Thanks
And again, thanks to all.
It's very informative.
the terminologies, and that's going to be a challenge for me.
Should be fun, right? RIGHT?
BTW, that site that I "supposedly" found, on my post #11, with the pics of that
connector thing, was actually posted by crera, on his post #8. Thanks
And again, thanks to all.
It's very informative.
Post Fiend
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From: Atlanta GA
Without knowing your BIOS and O/S, what you should be able to do is go into the laptop BIOS and set it to boot from a network device (set it to the 1st boot device), then over your network cable, grab a shared CD drive on the desktop PC. I usually copy the CD to a (virtual drive (G
) to the HD so it goes faster.
) to the HD so it goes faster.
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