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| 416592 | 2005-12-30 10:01:00 | My NEC VersaPro VA50J Laptop has no internal CD-ROM but it has USB port, no OS yet. Anyone can teach me setup at least Windows 98 SE on it? I have this USB logitech CD-RW :help: | norvin (9499) | ||
| 416593 | 2005-12-30 10:20:00 | Go to bios, the computer should show u a hotkey that u can press upon startup. Get into bios and access boot from usb if that is available. Or some laptops one that I have has two hotkeys, one for bios and the other for temporary boot up, if you press the later u can boot from another source, worth a try at least but I doubt it for USB. So try the first one first. Failing USB. If you have network card then creat a book disk with network access. For this google a article online. Or else, you can take HDD out and stick into a PC with a adaptor, copy the Windows CD onto it and transfer bootfiles onto it.. in DOS this will be like format g:/s. Or else just format it and copy windows CD onto it, to boot up use a Windows 98 start up disk and then access the HDD from there on .. and then run setup.exe. Or else if you have windows 95 on disk. Use that. Use network if you got that copy onto the 2nd partition. Format the first partition in DOS and run the setup.exe from 2nd partition after a bootdisk to start up the PC. This is just easier than mucking around with dos network bootdisk. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 416594 | 2005-12-30 21:19:00 | If you do boot from the USB drive, and run the setup directly from it, I'm not sure how Windows 98 would react. It's an interesting question. The way I'd do it, but I have all the pieces I need already; might be tricky for you: 1) With the hard drive in the laptop, fdisk and format the hard drive with a floppy "format c: /s", with a DOS or Windows 98 bootable floppy / USB drive. 2) using a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter, install the laptop's hard drive into a PC with a CD drive, and copy the Windows 98 CD onto the hard drive 3) reinstall the drive back into the laptop. 4) remove the bootable floppy / USB drive, boot to the hard drive, and manually start the setup program from the command prompt. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 416595 | 2005-12-30 21:51:00 | Someone that doesn't know how to install an OS from a USB drive shouldn't be poking round inside thier lappy pulling hard drives etc And if I remember rightly the drive in an NEC 50J is a right pig to get at |
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