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hello all i am in desperate need of help i need to install an os before this sunday on an ibm thinkpad 570 which has nothing but a floppy drive on its ultrabase, i have ordered the cd drive but its may not be here in time so i hope ...


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Old 16th Oct 2008, 04:36
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Default Need help installing os

hello all
i am in desperate need of help i need to install an os before this sunday on an ibm thinkpad 570 which has nothing but a floppy drive on its ultrabase, i have ordered the cd drive but its may not be here in time so i hope you guys can help
how can i install any os via a floppy drive without any cd drive support
i have seen a couple of posts but they lead on to need the cd drive later on, and i atm dont have this,
im not fussed which os as i have most avaiable in iso format at home
thank you all!
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Old 16th Oct 2008, 06:30
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well fitting an operating system from the last 20 years on a floppy is going 2 be hard :D, i think the only way is to copy the contents of the opertaing system iso onto your hard drive then you can boot a windows emergency floppy thing and run setup.exe from there. the only problem is that you need access to the hard drive via another laptop :(

thats the only pratical thing i can think of, you could go to a computer repair place or something and borrow their cd drive but some how i dont think they would do it for free and concidering that your laptop runs on coal id say that you are on a tight budget :)
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Old 16th Oct 2008, 06:50
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ha nice the coal made me laugh
i think ive found a way i have another laptop around to use gonna put the disk put into to two partitions copy the contents of of windows cd on one then use a win98 boot disk and run setup and install on other parition which i think will work :)
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Old 16th Oct 2008, 07:24
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how are you going to copy the windows files without your primary hard drive to boot from on the other laptop or can you put 2 hard drives in it? well anyway dont install windows using your second laptop because it wont work with your coal powered one :) but partitioning will still work
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Old 16th Oct 2008, 22:38
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there is a way.. using a usb flash drive....i dont know how to do it.. my friend knows... he did that with his laptop.... try googling about how to do that ....
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Old 19th Oct 2008, 06:39
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Yep, you can install from a USB stick.

Looky here: http://www.msfn.org/board/install-US...F-t120444.html

Or for loads of info: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-USB-f157.html
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