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how load win 98 on old laptop?
Hi,
A friend gave me an old NEC Versa laptop. It has no usb, it was made around 1996, it has a one gig hard drive in it. Serial port, parallel port, pciamci slot or whatever its called with a 28k modem in it, a video out, and one bay that can hold either a 3 1/2" floppy drive, or a 2X cdrom, both of which I have. Here's the problem, it has win98 on it but it doesn't load, it halts saying no himem.sys loaded or something like that. So I tried copying the file from a floppy into the windows directory but it never seems to get in there because I continually get the same message. Even after it says the file was copied. Then I made a directory on the hard drive, and copied himem.sys to it, and sure enough it was there. Then I copied it from there to the windows directory, and it isn't there, and booting gives me the same error message. the drives aren't hot swappable, so the problem is I can't get to the cdrom. The win98 setup disk works in the 3.5 but it doesn't load cdrom drivers because it doesn't see a cdrom in the system because there isn't one. Even if it did, the system would crash if I pulled swapped the drives hot. The bios has no switches to change boot order. It only has 3.5 and then the c drive. So I sent a way for a 3.5 to 2.5 converter to put the drive in a regular computer and load the os from there, but no luck, the jack on the NEC's hard drive is smaller than the 2.5" on the converter, so about now I'm looking for some ideas. Thanks for any help with this, Avery |
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:35:39 -0500 Not alowing their prejudice to rule
their future "~ Avery Anderson~" wrote : Hi, A friend gave me an old NEC Versa laptop. It has no usb, it was made around 1996, it has a one gig hard drive in it. Serial port, parallel port, pciamci slot or whatever its called with a 28k modem in it, a video out, and one bay that can hold either a 3 1/2" floppy drive, or a 2X cdrom, both of which I have. Here's the problem, it has win98 on it but it doesn't load, it halts saying no himem.sys Faulty RAM. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free original songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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~ Avery Anderson~ wrote: Hi, A friend gave me an old NEC Versa laptop. It has no usb, it was made around 1996, it has a one gig hard drive in it. Serial port, parallel port, pciamci slot or whatever its called with a 28k modem in it, a video out, and one bay that can hold either a 3 1/2" floppy drive, or a 2X cdrom, both of which I have. Here's the problem, it has win98 on it but it doesn't load, it halts saying no himem.sys loaded or something like that. So I tried copying the file from a floppy into the windows directory but it never seems to get in there because I continually get the same message. Even after it says the file was copied. Then I made a directory on the hard drive, and copied himem.sys to it, and sure enough it was there. Then I copied it from there to the windows directory, and it isn't there, and booting gives me the same error message. the drives aren't hot swappable, so the problem is I can't get to the cdrom. The win98 setup disk works in the 3.5 but it doesn't load cdrom drivers because it doesn't see a cdrom in the system because there isn't one. Even if it did, the system would crash if I pulled swapped the drives hot. The bios has no switches to change boot order. It only has 3.5 and then the c drive. So I sent a way for a 3.5 to 2.5 converter to put the drive in a regular computer and load the os from there, but no luck, the jack on the NEC's hard drive is smaller than the 2.5" on the converter, so about now I'm looking for some ideas. Thanks for any help with this, Avery It's a Win/95 vintage machine. Did W/98 come out on floppies ? Just maybe if you looked on a w/98 CDROM you'd find that all the CAB files were less than 1.44 MB and could be copied to floppies. and you could use them for to install. Look on http://bootdisks.com/ for the boot floppies. What a PITA. -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. |
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Shep,
Thanks, I didn't pull the memory, and reinstall. Will do. Avery |
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Al,
Thanks for the tip. If the win98 cabs don't fit on a floppy, I'm sure the win95 ones will. Also, there is a complete set of cabs on the hard drive. I can boot to an A prompt and get to the C drive and see them. The install in there works, but I aborted it after the start because I don't know what software key that set of cabs uses. Is there a way to extract the key? Thanks, Avery, ps: the original windows directory I can browse, too. Is there a way to find the key there? If so, I could use the cabs to reinstall because in all likelihood they are the ones originally used to install the OS. |
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Hi Seabat,
Nope, that's the problem. There is no setting in the cmos to make it boot from a CD, if there was, I could just use the win98 CD. Then again, I don't know how to make a boot CD. I can make a bootable floppy, though. Well, I can let windows make one for me anyway. Thanks, Avery |
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"~ Avery Anderson~" wrote in message ... Hi, A friend gave me an old NEC Versa laptop. It has no usb, it was made around 1996, it has a one gig hard drive in it. Serial port, parallel port, pciamci slot or whatever its called with a 28k modem in it, a video out, and one bay that can hold either a 3 1/2" floppy drive, or a 2X cdrom, both of which I have. Here's the problem, it has win98 on it but it doesn't load, it halts saying no himem.sys loaded or something like that. So I tried copying the file from a floppy into the windows directory but it never seems to get in there because I continually get the same message. Even after it says the file was copied. Then I made a directory on the hard drive, and copied himem.sys to it, and sure enough it was there. Then I copied it from there to the windows directory, and it isn't there, and booting gives me the same error message. Perhaps you are missing something here, although Himem.sys exists, is it being loaded by the autoexec.bat file. MJP |
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"MJP" wrote:
"~ Avery Anderson~" wrote in message A friend gave me an old NEC Versa laptop. It has no usb, it was made around 1996, it has a one gig hard drive in it. Serial port, parallel port, pciamci slot or whatever its called with a 28k modem in it, a video out, and one bay that can hold either a 3 1/2" floppy drive, or a 2X cdrom, both of which I have. Here's the problem, it has win98 on it but it doesn't load, it halts saying no himem.sys loaded or something like that. So I tried copying the file from a floppy into the windows directory but it never seems to get in there because I continually get the same message. Even after it says the file was copied. Then I made a directory on the hard drive, and copied himem.sys to it, and sure enough it was there. Then I copied it from there to the windows directory, and it isn't there, and booting gives me the same error message. Perhaps you are missing something here, although Himem.sys exists, is it being loaded by the autoexec.bat file. I would think that is the problem. Man, I messed with AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and all the trappings thousands of times. Those were the days, I guess. When desperate to compute, with much effort I stuffed Windows 95 and AOL on a 41GB hard disk drive. |
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...on a 41GB hard disk drive.
I meant 41MB. It's been a long time. |
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