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

me me me
 

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 :icon_wink:
wish me luck see you guys on the other side

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.

i never put down compliments :) thanks nimble.

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