I forgot to mention the ps2 port had been used so much the connection adapter broke away from the anchoring part. A regular "never ending...
BB, I need the usb support in dos because of the messed up keyboard on the laptop----just to run the friggin' Windows disk to format or repair,...
I'm thinking the spyware is important, 2 good ones are Spybot and Ad-Ware, do a search for those and they are free. Definitely stay away from...
I've said in the past I'm working on another laptop seeking to recover from corrupt system files on another laptop that I have current work and...
Just to get some input, my laptop's bios doesn't have usb option to enable for dos, but there may be a solution here...
Pete, Zander, and BillyBob, I GUESS ISO doesn't like rewritable cds or my burner---have no clue, but I got reg. cdr cds. Someone earlier...
OK, I'm taking the system files elsewhere to burn them and see what happens, thanks Cyn
BTW, BB, those files have nothing to do with Compaq specifically. I found an interesting tool that's shareware, UltraISO, search for it, I was...
Actually, easy cd recorder makes bootcat.bin and bootimg.bin to represent the floppy image with the startup disk. What I want to know is what...
Thought that other thread was getting a bit deep. Followed this technique to the letter but it didn't work:(. Easy CD recorder puts these two...
Well beings if you had a floppy and a cd drive, then the ramdrive is on D:\ and the cd drive is now E:\. I'm reading up on the posts, another...
Oh so I'm going to copy the floppy to the cd layout, choose iso9660 with bootable option, then there's cdrom or cdrom xa, which one...see that...
Hmmmm, seems Cox Cable lost a reply from me, I've been following the article from BillyBob and got all the files together AND my floppy's working...
John, I'm reading the article now, thanks, the ultimate repair cd sounds good instead of using an out of the box application, you can include your...
I too had copied just the files over using joliet and it didn't boot. Would using the iso9660 make it work? I've used the bin files alone and...
BillyBob, not sure what you mean, the first time, I just copied all the startup files to a cd, that didn't work, need the boot sector... what...
Pete, Windows 98 1st ed installation cd :O( doesn't have boot option, Cyn BTW, to Zander, can't boot from a cd as of yet, but I can burn those...
Hi, I just did that and the atapi cd just stays on after the bootup and windows booted from the hard drive. The files were used from...
I downloaded the trial for Nero and on the 1st run, said the trial period had expired ???? I really don't have $99 for Nero right now. Now...
Pete, used cd creater, boot option and it asked for the floppy, which I had the emergency startup disk there, then I moved all the files over. CD...
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