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Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 11:46
by markfiend
I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow; the computer I'm "fixing" is at home.
Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 17:54
by Dan
Do a split rar and put it on 57 floppies.
What isp are you? If it's NTL there's a manual way of installing the broadband software without using the install prog on the cd.
Posted: 07 Sep 2006, 21:33
by mh
Best of luck with getting this working.
Here's the DOS USB driver I used in the past:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=10215
This worked flawlessly and got me out of a serious hole (using Norton Ghost to re-image a machine in a similar condition).
Here's another that I haven't tried:
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 09:55
by markfiend
Dan wrote:Do a split rar and put it on 57 floppies.
That was what the computer's owner was going to do. It might come to that yet.
Dan wrote:What isp are you? If it's NTL there's a manual way of installing the broadband software without using the install prog on the cd.
BTInternet.
I don't actually know where the install disk is...
Anyhoo, the knoppix disk is showing up as an audio CD; the iso matches its md5 so I guess I burnt it wrong.
The DOS drivers look like another worthwhile line of investigation.
Thanks everyone. More attempts over the weekend...
If all else fails a friend has said he'll help me take the laptop apart to plug the HD into another computer.
Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 14:09
by rian
EvilBastard wrote:I would take the harddrive out of the laptop, set it to slave, pop it into an widely-available HD enclosure, hook it up to another machine, pull the files across,
Yep, that's the way to go.
Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 14:24
by markfiend
rian wrote:EvilBastard wrote:I would take the harddrive out of the laptop, set it to slave, pop it into an widely-available HD enclosure, hook it up to another machine, pull the files across,
Yep, that's the way to go.
Yes, I think that's what I'll do.
Posted: 08 Sep 2006, 16:47
by Dan
Last time I needed to transfer files from another hard drive I simply unplugged the cdrom drive and plugged the HD into there and copied the files over (balancing the HD on top of the case). A very speedy job and I didn't even need to change any settings. That was with win98 though and I'd expect XP to be more fussy.