Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:08:45 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade - HD Disappears
Just tried to setup a new 20 GB HD in my 110CT...weird stuff happening.. Tried to follow approach shown below...but problems... If I boot Win98SE boot floppy disk then select my CD Drive to load the DOS drivers, it makes the CD drive the 'C' drive! So when I try to copy the Win OS files over the hard drive, I can't as there's no hard drive 'there'. In other words, the 'A' drive is my floppy drive, but it's treating the 'B' drive as the floppy too! and the 'C' drive is the CD drive! If I try other drive letters (those after A,B,C) like D,E, etc I get invalid drive spec error message. To make sure my hard drive is there, I rebooted normally (without CD drive support) and my hard drive is there as the 'C' drive! but then no CD drive support.... Anyway to get this straightened out?? I can use USB cable on my CD drive instead of PC card cable if that would make a difference... BTW, don't have another PC right now to put the HD in.... Thanks for any suggestions! Mark Frustrated Silicone Valley Libretterati on 5/22/04 9:07 PM, David Chien at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 21:06:29 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Catch 22 ?? - Please Advise - Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD > Upgrade >> Option A) Do a clean install of the new OS on a new hard drive (without any >> Toshiba Libretto floppies or CD's)? > Download all drivers from www.csd.toshiba.com -- you don't need any recovery > CDs to run the Libretto fine. > > Next, you can simply boot to the floppy drive, fdisk and format the HD, > reboot and load up the DOS CD_ROM drivers, then copy the entire \win98 > directory from the install CD onto the HD, then run setup.exe to install > win98, > then install the drivers you have from www.csd.toshiba.com. > > This gives you a new,fresh install of win98 + working lIbretto drivers that > works perfectly (I've tried on both the L50/J i had and the L110 i have).
