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Arcadiac:
Bios supports boot from floppy or HD only but will not boot from the particular floppy I have.  It's a good floppy, I checked it on my other PC.
The only thing I could get to operate without additional drivers was a trackball mouse.
So the usb ports work but if Win98 does not alrady have the drivers for the device I have no way of loading them, mem sticks, drive etc. no love.
Looking at "help/about windows" in the menu it just says win98, not sp2.
Tried networking thru 10/100 port, no luck there either, win 98 didn't acknowledge it at all.
It even has infrared but I have nothing else to send the files thru to it!
All I really want to do is load WinXP on it and put a few game on it as well.
Here is a link to the manuals, maybe that will help.

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Fujitsu-B2545-Laptops-manual/id/606bh547/t/2/

Keep in mind that I have none of the accessories or port replicators and am trying to work with what I have, usb floppy, usb hp cdwriter or mem sticks.
I called the person I bought it from to see if any other accessories are available just in case she forgot to send them along with it.

I wonder if I could connect pc to pc and transfer driver files through the modem ports?  How?  Is there a simple way one of you could share here with me,
idiot-proof?  :dizzy:
There has to be a solution, it's probably a lot simpler than I'm making it I just don't see it yet!

Thanks again for your ideas, keep em coming!

ARCADIAC!

ChadTower:

Take the hard drive out and slave it on another machine.  Or put it in a USB enclosure and plug that into another machine.

david656:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 05, 2009, 01:51:53 pm ---
Take the hard drive out and slave it on another machine.  Or put it in a USB enclosure and plug that into another machine.

--- End quote ---

thats what i've tried doing recently.. shuved a 2.5 to 3.5 converter on an old ibm laptop hard drive and shuved it in my pc.. the drive physically started squealing... and would not get recognised.. i put it in the laptop.. fine.. very odd

i got 1 out of say 4 drives to recognise... but i think the other 3 were dead anyway as they wouldn't even power.

In theory good idea though :-) and the one i plan to do. some how

If you plan to put the hard drive in a different PC you may want to format it, install dos and then simply copy a windows 98/ME disc into a folder on the hard drive. then pop it in the laptop and run the folder from the DOS prompt. i've tried this theory in virtual machine and it works ok :-) but only up to windows ME as 2000 XP etc cannot be installed from the dos prompt.

Nipedley:
I second the 2.5" hard drive to 3.5" converter above. It should have no compatability issues, because all your doing is putting the same signals through a different cable. I had to use one for an old laptop I got years ago.

Put the drive on as slave on the computer your using now, and copy over all the drivers you need (that windows 98 sp2 is a good one as well, forgot about that!)

Also it depends how old the laptop is, but many bios have the ability to boot from usb before windows loads, so you could potentially use that to install XP.

Arcadiac:
External enclosure and simply copy the drivers over........I'll try it!
Thanks all, will report back later.

ARCADIAC!

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