- Sep 21, 2004
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Hi guys, I've fond myself in abit of a pickle.
I've recently aquired a Toshiba Portege M2000 notebook and it has no OS installed and no flappy/cd drives.
I tried booting it up with my external cd drive plugged into the USB port and I ended up at a LAN bootup option which I couldnt get past.
After some research I found out that I'd need MSDOS installed in order to get rid of the LAN bootup so I used my exernal USB floppy drive, installed MSDOS and got rid of the LAN bootup option.
I then proceeded to plug my cd drive back into the usb port with my win2k CD inside and after booting up to the C:> prompt I tried switching to D: and E: both of which said nothing was there.
I plugged my USB floppy drive in and that showed up fine so I installed win3.11 hopeing to then upgrade to a better OS from within windows only to find that win3.11 has no USB support.
So basicly, I've now got a laptop with win3.11 and MSDOS installed, able to access an external floppy drive but not a external Cd drive and I wish to install win2k or winxp.
Any suggestions? :s
Thanks in advance!
I've recently aquired a Toshiba Portege M2000 notebook and it has no OS installed and no flappy/cd drives.
I tried booting it up with my external cd drive plugged into the USB port and I ended up at a LAN bootup option which I couldnt get past.
After some research I found out that I'd need MSDOS installed in order to get rid of the LAN bootup so I used my exernal USB floppy drive, installed MSDOS and got rid of the LAN bootup option.
I then proceeded to plug my cd drive back into the usb port with my win2k CD inside and after booting up to the C:> prompt I tried switching to D: and E: both of which said nothing was there.
I plugged my USB floppy drive in and that showed up fine so I installed win3.11 hopeing to then upgrade to a better OS from within windows only to find that win3.11 has no USB support.
So basicly, I've now got a laptop with win3.11 and MSDOS installed, able to access an external floppy drive but not a external Cd drive and I wish to install win2k or winxp.
Any suggestions? :s
Thanks in advance!