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Old 07-07-2007, 03:27 AM
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Cool How do i load win98 on an old thinkpad with an a drive and external cdrom?


My sister gave me an old ibm thinkpad. the hard drive was wiped clean and has an external cdrom. i want to put windows 98 on it but i don't have any program on floppy, i do however have win98 and winME on cd. what would i need to do to set up windows on my old laptop?



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My sister gave me an old ibm thinkpad. the hard drive was wiped clean and has an external cdrom. i want to put windows 98 on it but i don't have any program on floppy, i do however have win98 and winME on cd. what would i need to do to set up windows on my old laptop?
Hello turtle, I think you will find that it's a very similar process to William Wilsons' tutorial:http://www.syschat.com/install-windo...py-cd-463.html.

If you need any more help then get back to us.

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the original 98 installer is a 16 bit installer itself, without needing another version. As it was meant to be installed from the 98 boot disk.



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