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Thread ID: 11761	2001-10-05 05:44:00	Old laptop - won't install past disk 2 win95? Can I use IDE CD ROM via serial?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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20126	2001-10-05 05:44:00	I FDISK'd then Formatted then tried to instal via floppies all good untill it asks for disk 2 put it in then it still asks for disk 2?? Is there a way to use IDE CD ROM via serial cable? or something else. This is an old digital 486 50mhz laptop that I am playing with to try and get going, maybe I should try factory defaults CMOS setup?? Cheers for any help. Scotty	Guest (0)
20127	2001-10-05 05:57:00	I know from perivous experiences that that is a sign of the hard drive broken. So there isn't any point in installing window is there? It means that there's too many bad sectors. If it run scandisk using a boot disk (if u have one) and it says that there's heaps of bad sectors then i'm right (which i believe i believe i am already!!!) Unless you want to get a new secondhand hard disk installed for a minimum of $50 buck sometime labour costs 80 bucks itself!!! otherwise i would suggest you just sell the 'useless thing away' and just a tip before you throw that out. Laptops are always not something you would get often so i suggest you take it apart and do some research such as finding out background information about the computers, then after awhile when you know a lot about it, you may even be able to buy a hard drive for $10 bucks @ a auction and install it your self. Otherwise throw it away or sell it. But you won't get much more than probably $10 buck. Probably nobody would want it anyway.	Guest (0)
20128	2001-10-05 06:20:00	Ignore that silly twit! When it asks for disk 2-- did you go browse and tell it where disk 2 was? I hooked an old lap top to my main computer once and installed win98. I can't quite remember how I did it now. I know I've still got the parallel cable I made by butchering 2 printer cables and downloaded the pin configuration from the net. I've still got the scematic. It was pretty slow, about 2 mb a min. Somehow I copied the win98 folder to the laptop from the cd in the main computer, then ran setup from there. I know you have 95 on disks, 13 from memory. Perhaps my ramblings will help or someone else will know the way. I'll keep thinking about it.	Guest (0)
20129	2001-10-05 06:43:00	Ran scandisk no problems. It doesn't give an option to browse.	Guest (0)
20130	2001-10-05 22:50:00	ok i will tell u the methods since i have had a 486 laptop with no cd-rom b4 and now a thin laptop with no floppy/cd its a PIII-600 - so its not old =p. Ok, win95. You're on right track boot pc from bootdisk and use fdisk and do whatever u like then 'format c:/s'. The cheapest and longest but no more than 3hrs of manual roles is to borrow someone's floppy and install (quickest) or borrow someone's cd and use winzip span to 2 disks per cab file and do so until all win95 folder is fully cared for 50MB. and then run setup on c:. The other thing is borrow someone's parallel port zip drive and use a bootdisk with zip drive drivers and copy win95 to HD and install. You can use PCMCIA cd-rom but need to borrow or buy. Networkis also possible but need a process of many drivers in dos and map a drive at another comp. Parallel cable/serial cable would cost u but need to load dos6.x and run interlink software provided in dos. Damn slow .. and one of use cos when win95 is working i seroulsly suggest u get network card or a cd-rom drive. Overall since it'll cost u and u don't have any cd-rom drive. Its better just to get win95 running in 3hrs through floppies (copy from someone's cds) then install. OR ZIP. In windows u can buy a netowrk card PCMCIA or a PCMCIA/USB/PARALLEL/PCMCIA SCSI cd-rom/dvd-rom/cd-rew/dvd-ram ... and even zip/jazz/zip click/ibm microdrive. Put it this way u can spend one evening on it and get it working ...	Guest (0)
20131	2001-10-06 02:14:00	No flies on you R ay, I remember how I did mine now. It already had win95 on the laptop (p 133 64 mb)I used direct cable connection to my main computer via homemade parallel cable, copied win98 folder to laptop. Then using dos, probably on startup disk, I went through and deleted every file on the laptop except win98 folder. Like you said costs nothing, and gives an evenings entertainment. The laptop is still in use.	Guest (0)
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