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[adscrims1]

I have a Toshiba Portege 7020CT. It has has it's hard disk formated. I have a copy of Windows NT but with no boot disk!!!! I now have a decent laptop that is unusable. Can anyone help please?
Thanks in advance
Andy

 

[smaxted]

There is sites all over the internet where you can download boot disks....here's a link to one below.

http://www.bootdisk.com

Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted

"Another day, another problem"

 

[adscrims1]

I do not have the CD rom drivers. So I guess even with the boot disk I can not use the CD drive to put the O/S on.

 

[wolluf]

NT install CD is bootable (ie, shouldn't need 3 floppy boot disk set - just need to set bios to boot from CD ROM). Also, Windows installs generally have drivers which work with most CD drives - so might as well just try it. You may need to download other drivers (graphics, sound etc) - NT is not plug and play either.

 

[nlm9802]

go into the bios and change boot order to 1.cdrom 2.hdd0 3.floppy

the cd driver's aren't necessary to boot from the cd, as the cpu/mobo should recognize it on bootup.

well. I'm not positive with nt. try acquiring a 2000 pro disk, its better than NT anyways, it should work with just the nt cd once you change the boot order.

Nick
Computer Support, no not just hardware.. I support everything

 

[artsharris]

I have a laptop with NT on it. I want to blow it away and load Windows Me. How should it be done? any gotcha's??
Thanks

 

[soaplover]

It you are thinking about trashing NT as you say for WinME.
Your PC w/NT is lightly to be formatted with NTFS .ME cant read ntfs filesystem so you will have to use fdisk frrom the ME boot disk to create new partition fat/fat32(all data are lost) ,format it .Then install WinME .

Go to a computer (friend ,office, etc.) and create a windows rescue/boot disk (or get it from the net) .
Boot choosing the "CDrom support" in the boot menu" .
Change drive to WinMe cdrom and type in "setup.exe /is" .

//Regards Soaplover

 

[wolluf]

Art

you'll need to remove the ntfs (if it is) partition using fdisk before creating new fat32 one (it should appear as non-dos to fdisk). Have you got ME drivers for all laptop hardware? (laptops usually more proprietary than desktops - so this could be a problem).

 

[soaplover]

Its always smart as wolluf says to download all the newest drivers before doing something like this .
Make a cd compilation with newest ME drivers for all your hardware .

//Regards Soaplover