Laptop

[tad214]

Hello,
I have not worked on a laptop in a while, so i am needing a little bit of advice here.

What i am doing is a clean install on a ibm thinkpad 760el, and i am having a problem with the cd drivers.

I had this problem once before, but i am not sure what i did to get out of it. ok, here goes,

How do i get the cd drivers, when i have to use the floppy drive, and of course, it doesn't locate a rom drive, because there is not one there.

I am installing 98se, and it will not boot off the cd alone. So, do i need to copy the drivers from the floppy to the hard drive?

But how would i do that, when there is not a root directory or anything there. Just a newly formatted drive. all responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for the help. have a good night.

Dale

 

[imported_SpeedsterZ28]

Check to see if you can dowload a recovery file to load onto the floppy. This should load the necessary drivers to get the CD-ROM working.

 

[corkyg]

Normally, laptop makers provide for a System Restore with either a CD or a stored image of one on the HDD. The laptop manual should tell you how to do it - each is somewhat different. Laptop OEM websites usually have all the drivers available for download so you can roll your own. What's the brand?

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Make a Start-up disk on any 98SE machine. Use it to boot. It will set up the CD. Run SETUP on the CD. Jim