re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 11:17 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Marc ,,,your right it will not work because it's for a USB port not for a pcmcia cd rom....need to read the text file that came with it... "in another (different) " I would not because it's laptop take in to a desktop and try it ... Unplug the one that's in the desktop and plug the laptop HD in..... Then boot with the win2k cd and let in format the drive. DON'T install win2k just format the HD... Or you can download a bootdisk for win98se and format the drive,,,from bootdisk.com You says what's with all the format stuff...??? If you install win2k on the laptop drive in the desktop pc it will use the hardware in the desktop and not the laptop,,,,,and you don't have a way to fix it on the laptop with out a cd drive....(to run the repair item to find the hardware on the laptop...) So anyway after you have formated the drive go to the win2k cd and copy the I-386 dir to the drive.. it will be on the cd under winnt/I-386. copy to the laptop HD i.e. C:\>I-386setupNT Then put it back in the laptop and restart the laptop with the win98se boot disk,,,then go to C:\>I-386setupNT dir and type winnt.exe in it will install and set it up to run on the laptop....... I know it looks hard but it's not, just takes time....with a out boot cd rom drive... On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 9:03 am, Marc wrote: >Bob, >I'm so sorry, but it really doesn't work: always the same msg about sectors whatever >I try (reformatted, tried another path) >And problems are accumulating > >My DVD rom has a pcmcia. It doesn't boot either. Any chance to change that? When >I start the computer it starts reading before launching WWindows but that's all. >Maybe another question: could I just open the laptop, take the harddrive out, install >it in another (different) laptop and boot a windows CD? Any risk that it wouldn't >work or worse damage the second laptop? > >Thank you for your patience >Marc > Written in response to: re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 9:03 am) Responses to this message: re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Monday, December 1, 2003 at 3:59 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:29 pm) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 1:21 pm) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 2:24 pm) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 5:29 pm) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 4:04 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 11:43 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 12:07 pm) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 8:51 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 10:05 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Sun, Nov 30, 2003, 9:03 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (DEX: Sun, Nov 30, 2003, 11:17 am) re: Help needed: W2K reboots constantly (Marc: Mon, Dec 1, 2003, 3:59 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum