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Dell laptop problems
« on: April 03, 2006, 05:06:36 PM »

Hi, everybody!

I was asked by a friend to install Windows on her laptop she had gotten from her father when he got a new one.. She doesn´t have a floppy, and the internal dvd-rom didn´t work.. I thought to myself, no biggie, just use an external one..
Yeah, right.. Turns out the motherboard is damaged somehow and wont accept any optical drives at all.. How weird is that?

Anyway, I tried taking out the harddrive and installing Windows on another computer, but this didnt work at all.. I plugged it back in and all I got was a big ol´ black screen staring at me..

So does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do to remedy this situation? I placed a bid for an external USB floppy on our "local ebay" here in Sweden, but the auction doesnt end for quite a while, and I want to fix it as soon as possible.. Besides, I dont even know if I can fix it with the floppy anyway.. My hair is turning gray here.. :-)

So, my fellow experts.. Help me!  :-D
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Re: Dell laptop problems
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2006, 05:54:47 PM »

It doesn´t work at all..  :-(

I copied the XP CD onto the harddrive on my other computer, and will attempt to boot it later, but I dont even know if there is a command to start the installation through DOS..?
\\"Memory is like an orgasm. It\\\'s a lot better if you don\\\'t have to fake it.\\"
- Seymore Cray, on virtual memory.