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07-30-2004, 09:15 PM
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Laptop Hard Drive Problems
Hello Everyone,
I'm having issues with my brother's laptop. Heres the issue - the laptop was in need of a reformat and re-installation of its OS (Win98SE), and it has no internal drives. I couldn't get any USB Dos CD ROM drivers to work in order to re-install the OS from the laptop itself (The laptop has its own proprietary floppy though, which was recognized in DOS). I used a laptop hard drive converter, and reformated and reinstalled the OS my desktop PC. When I tried to place the hard drive back in the laptop, It gave an "Invalid Disk" error. I tried copying the Win 98SE CD to the hard disk, and tried to reinstall the OS from the laptop, however it couldn't do so since it would be installing on the same partition. I tried creating another partition, however it wouldn't be detected in the machine... Even when I copied the software to a different directory (C:/Win), it wouldn't get past the "reboot" stage of the installation, again coming up with the "invalid disk" error... Any help is greatly appreciated... Thanks, -Joe
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07-30-2004, 11:44 PM
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Is it a compaq, by any chance?
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07-31-2004, 12:22 AM
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IBM Thinkpad....
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07-31-2004, 10:06 PM
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Put the drive back into a desktop computer with your IDE converter. Boot the desktop computer with a Win98SE startup disk and partition/format the drive - and use the /s switch to make it bootable. Then make a directory on the drive for the 98 cabs from the CD like you did before. Put the drive back into the laptop - and boot to it. Change to the cabs directory and run setup.
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07-31-2004, 11:04 PM
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Thanks GLC,
I'm reformatting/partitioning the drive right now - I'll post back if I have a problem. Thanks! -Joe |
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08-02-2004, 04:55 AM
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Thanks again GLC,
The laptop now has its OS. The floppy drive seems to have died though, aswell as the hard drive on the desktop computer... Fix one and break two... Some odds... Thanks again! -Joe |
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