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| 13789 | 2001-06-07 10:49:00 | Hi,I have an older Toshiba laptop,100CDS,without a CD drive.Unfortunately,somehow,my son has wiped the hard drive of everything.The disk is OK,physically,just wiped clean.The problem is how do I reload windows and the other programs,without a CD drive.I rang a place that specialises in laptops,and they quoted me $100 to load windows,and $60 for each other program.Far more than the laptop is worth.What other options are there? Any help would be greatly appreciated.thanks. Peter |
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| 13790 | 2001-06-08 00:35:00 | hi Peter,I had a similar problem with an older type laptop.This is how i solved my problem.I got a hold of a copy of win95 on diskette,and loaded that on to the lap top.Then i got a hold of an external cd rom drive which connects via the parallel port,and an up grade win98 on cd rom.But you can still have detection problems with an external cd rom drive,so once you have loaded win95,reboot the computer from a win95 boot disc(The one with cd rom support)and see what happens. Either way it may cost you a little bit of money.This is only a brief outline of what you could do,but i hope it gives you some idea. |
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