Without having a Dell internal CD Drive, your next easiest solution is to use a Dell docking station and attach a SCSI CD-ROM (external) to the SCSI port on the docking station, then make the boot floppies for the XP install and use them along with the external CD-ROM to install your OS. You might be able to get away with using a USB CD if you have one with DOS support. Lastly, you could boot with a LAN boot disk and copy the install source onto yout local machine and run the setup locally.
All of that failing, you can remove the HD from the latitude and attach it to yours desktop (with an appropriate adapter) format it as bootable (FAT or FAT32 /DOS bootable) then copy the CD contents onto the local drive and run the setup program from there.
Also W-XP is a no-no unless you upgrade the CPU to at least 300mhz and have at minimum 128mb RAM(preferably 256mb, but the 128mb EDO Sodimms are expensive.)
W2000 is probably the latest OS you can use, or the W98SE it was built to use.
To connect the hard drive in the leptop to the desktop what cable do I need? I have a box of different computer cables and maybe I have one in there to do it. Also since I am fairly new to all this laptop stuff, anyway you can send me a link to a picture so i could see what this cable/ adapter lookds like? lol I am really trying to get this working I been working for 2 days on this laptop.
Any and ALL help is so much appreciated, Thanks so much.
JersWork
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May 24th, 2005 14:00
Without having a Dell internal CD Drive, your next easiest solution is to use a Dell docking station and attach a SCSI CD-ROM (external) to the SCSI port on the docking station, then make the boot floppies for the XP install and use them along with the external CD-ROM to install your OS. You might be able to get away with using a USB CD if you have one with DOS support. Lastly, you could boot with a LAN boot disk and copy the install source onto yout local machine and run the setup locally.
All of that failing, you can remove the HD from the latitude and attach it to yours desktop (with an appropriate adapter) format it as bootable (FAT or FAT32 /DOS bootable) then copy the CD contents onto the local drive and run the setup program from there.
leduke30
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May 24th, 2005 16:00
Also W-XP is a no-no unless you upgrade the CPU to at least 300mhz and have at minimum 128mb RAM(preferably 256mb, but the 128mb EDO Sodimms are expensive.)
W2000 is probably the latest OS you can use, or the W98SE it was built to use.
jadedprincess01
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May 24th, 2005 16:00
leduke30
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May 24th, 2005 20:00
This one is an example
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