There might be a possible work-around pulling the Latitude's HD and connecting it to another PC to copy the installation files from CD to the Latitude's HD, then putting it back in the Latitude to launch the setup and installation process. Maybe. Check this link, at the bottom of the page.
you seem to know what you are talking about. i did that process in a different order and have no idea what has happened. i transfered the windows files to the hd while in the enclosure. then put the hd back into the laptop and now when i turn it on i get nothing but a blank screen. no bios, no command prompt, nothing. if i put a disk in the floppy drive i can hear it trying to do something but nothing ever happens. i want to throw this thing away but i messed it up and its not mine....HELP
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You Make a WIN98 Startup Diskette.
You Fdisk and format the drive while its in the laptop so that it boots Command.com
THen you have a bootable Fat32 partition.
Make a Directory on the drive called Windows\options\cabs
Then shut down.
Remove the drive.
Put it in the enclosure and put the WIN98 CD into a machine running windows.
Copy the WIN98 Directory from the CD onto C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
Then shut down.
Put back in the laptop.
Boot from the startup disk and run setup.exe from C:\windows\options\cabs
For XP its almost the same.
Except that you need to boot from the startup disk and put smartdrv.exe on the diskette.
Then Run smartdrv.exe 2 times so that you see a screen that shows it loaded.
For XP you copy the I386 directory from the CDROM onto the root of the laptop drive.
YOU MUST DO THIS WITHIN WINDOWS. It cannot be done VIA DOS.
THen boot the startup disk and run smartdrv.exe 2 times.
Then goto C:\I386 and run WINNT.EXE
Remove the floppy and off you go.
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March 22nd, 2006 09:00