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Old 07-05-2007, 07:56 AM
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trouble I can't make the laptop boot from the hdd


i just bought a new 160 gb ide/ata hard drive for my laptop evo N610C compaq

now i don't have a dvd drive so i'm using an ext. one

after i replaced the old 30 gb hdd with the new one, used fdisk to put new partition and formated it fat32 (with large disk sep.)

i start the winnt from the i386 dir with smartdrv
(i boot my comp with 98 se with drivers from panasonic usbcd.sys and usbaspi.sys through them i get the ext. dvd through the usb)
and from here on just problems

i can't make the laptop boot from the hdd (160 gb) even when i install sys files on it

either the install finishes i am prompt for restart and then it just gets stuck after restart and shows me ( _ ) in the left up. corner of the screen

or it gets stuck in the middle of the file copying

help anybody couse i'm tierd of replacing the trey on those hdd



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Old 07-05-2007, 09:23 AM
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i finaly was able to reset my bios password by rem the rcp/rct batt for more then 15 sec and then replacing it back and turning on the comp without the main bat using the cable
finaly i have axes to bios and i
just flashed flashed it
still with my question though i'm gonna try to install windows ones again hopefully next time i post it will be from a fresh os operating on 160 gb
wish me luck see you guys on the other side



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Old 07-15-2007, 10:17 PM
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There's a great tutorial on here about using DOS 7.10 and connecting your laptop hard drive to another computer and installing DOS on it with smartdrive and the i386 folder.



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i never put down compliments thanks nimble.

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