Barry Aronson wrote:
>
> At 04:03 PM 9/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Barry,
> >
> >As a follow-up, do you then think if I create a startup disk from my HP
> >which has the Win98SE on it, and then send that to the woman I gave the
> >laptop to, that it will bring up the laptop where I also installed Win98SE
> >so it would match my HP programs. That's the basic problem. I have sent
> >her the Toshiba laptop and supporting Toshiba CDs but I personally installed
> >the Win98SE on the Toshiba when I still owned it. The supporting CDs only
> >offer restore/reformat options and would wipe out the Win98SE and any other
> >data she has on that laptop returning it to OEM status.
> >
> >Elaine
> >
> > > Clint! I think that Elaine is referring to an"EBD" as an Emergency Boot
> > > Disk. So either she is confusing the Rescue Boot Disk from Norton et al
> >or
> > > the only thing close to this anagram is the ERD in NT and Win 2k. I have
> > > been following the thread from the beginning and don't know what the
> > > problem is at present.
> > >
> > > Unless her friend has a special edition to Win98 then any boot disk with
> > > the proper files on it should get her up and going. I had a SCSI Boot
> >disk
> > > for Win98 for my Win95 machine for 3 years and it has all the files
> > > including my SCSI drivers of course.
> > >
> > > Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >_________________________________________________________
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>
> Elaine! You know SOMETIMES one has to take the bitter with the sweet. It
> takes more energy to find ways around a problem than to just start over and
> do it right in the first place.
>
> The most important utility on Windows is the "Find" utility. Look for all
> the necessary files for boot on any Win9x system and like msdos.sys and
> io.sys. I have sent you a web page explaining how to create boot disks for
> all kinds of systems.
>
> Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...or, you can download one here
http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml.
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Kelly Younger
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