Well now i got it running and 2000 installed the PCMCI nic card wont work and the sound card is to old so the REW program wont work either. wow, all that work for nothing.

Least i learned how to do it i guess.

Well im not sure where i learned it. Im pretty sure all versions of windows you can do this. You know the first reboot im talking about right? when you copy the cab files it just insures that incase there is no drive it will just look into that folder for the rest of the files it needs if it needs m...

Well first i want to say i have never messed with 2000 much so i never really had to mess with the boot files and the boot loader it created. I have it more figured out now. I think if i knew a little more about 2000 and used it a little more i may of figured it out or had the problem before. First ...

Well i figured out the other drive, the 2.1G one that came with the unit. I did the same thing to that drive as i did with the Toshiba, i bent the jumper pins over so that the 2.5 to IBM (the one that comes with the caddy tray) wasnt connecting the jumper on the drive and now its booting and working...

Hey thanks Neil! only took me what 3-4 days? lol

now to crack that other drive, i think i can i think i can i think i can.

The IBM drive still has me puzzled. Now i know that drive has an issue, somthig is still on it i cant remove that goes with windows 2k server edition from the preveous owners install. I got it all up and in the device manager the onlything that isnt working is the PCMCI and one of the com ports. It ...

SO far so good



Now i wonder if using the jumper on the drive when i put it in my computer is what needs to actualy be done to fully clean it.

never mind thats what it was, i went and looked at the Toshiba jumper config and it showed that the 2 ouside pins jumped were "prohibit" so i removed the jumper pins and it now sees the drive. That is the drive i installed windows 9x (windows ME) shhh dont tell no one. Its booting and the install is...

I think i know why the drive from the toshiba isnt showing on the IBM the jumpers are not correct. The IBM plug i think also jumps the jumper settings on the drive. Like master, slave, drive 0 etc. The toshiba i think uses a different jumper configuration. Does anyone know how the IBM drives in the ...

Yes the 1.2G drive came from another laptop a toshiba, i took out the IBM caddy and took apart the little plug that goes from the standard 2.5 IDE to the IBM drive caddy plug. I plug this into the drive then i plug them into the machine without them being in the drive caddy. The plug is just a 2.5 t...

Can some one explain why the other laptop drive wont show on the IBM? this is another one that i dont understand.

Well this machine had windows 2000 on it when i got it so i just figured it was the better OS to use on it right now. Does microsoft still support 2000? i know it doesnt support any of the past so updates wouldnt work i dont think. The other drive i have that it wont reconize is a 1.2 from another l...

Well scratch the fat32 idea, its still hanging on the windows is starting screen. Nothing has changed.

Im all out of ideas other then to try and install windows 95 first.

When id the best time to put the drive back into the laptop during the install? You know how it install a bunch of files then it reboots? if i put it back into the laptop then will it install the CDrom drivers after this first reboot? I think it may install all the cab files or system files before t...

I just tried that format c:/s and i got an error that says my version of dos no longer supports the "S" command. I did some google searching and one of the posts i found was to try format c:/s I know im trying to do somthing the wrong way but im fully installing the OS on another machine and when i ...

Yeah man that would be great. I can pay for shipping or somthing with a paypal add. Does this forum have a personal message thing? Im starting to wonder if this thing didnt start with 95 then it was upgraded to 2000 and i need to start that way? I finaly got 2000 installed on the drive in another ma...

Would the file system matter on this machine? Fat or NTFS? maybe that was my mistake?

Well it does and it doesnt, he says put the system files on the drive. Once the system files are on the drive i still need DOS to navigate to the filder with the system files on it dont i? Can you point me in the direction on how to load the dos files to the drive? im not sure how i dont think ive d...

Are you fermiliar with the 760? Mine has no floppy with it so i cant boot to dos. Its either been changed out or i didnt receive it with the unit. The part that puzzles me is the CDrom does not show up in the bios so till there is an OS on it that has the drivers the CDrom will not function either. ...

I picked up an older 760XL at the local indoor R/C track. The guy told me i could have it if i wiped the drive. It had windows 2000 on it and booted to a locked password. I picked up a converter because i have no floppy with this unit and the CDrom isnt being listed in the bios. I put the drive in a...