Re: I have a boot problem?

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What USB enclosure?

"tlc_13200@xxxxxxxxxxx" <tlc13200hotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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what about a usb enclosure?

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"tlc_13200@xxxxxxxxxxx" <tlc13200hotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
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My customer brought me an old notebook without a floppy drive, nor is
the
system bootable - for the CD-ROM drive requires the CD-ROM drivers to
load. I
have its hard drive formated with NTFS and which to somehow place some
system
files onto the drive so that it can boot up.

Anything is helpful... perhaps there is a way to make it bootable at
least.
Please help me.

I like to put Windows 2000 on the hard drive, the computer is too old
to
use
Windows XP or even VISTA. The customer only needs this notebook to
program
his dune buggy - he requires the serial connection on the back in
order
for
it to work?!

Please help?!?

1. Remove the hard disk and connect it to a desktop PC.
You need a low-cost adapter to do this. Make very sure
to connect it the right way. If you get it wrong then you
will fry the disk.
2. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
3. Use fdisk.exe, format.com and sys.com to partition and format
the disk and to make it bootable under DOS.
4. Put smartdrv.exe on it.
5. Copy the Win2000 CD to \i386 on this disk.
6. Install it in the laptop and boot the machine into DOS.
7. Run smartdrv.exe.
8. Run this command to start the Windows installation:
c:\i386\winnt.exe.
9. When finished, convert drive C: to NTFS if desired.





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