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re: The Dell has no floppy, but...
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:14 pm
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Posted by DEX (11744 messages posted)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. -- Chinese proverb --

Most CD burning programs need to have a floppy drive to get the system files from BUT at bootdisk.com you can get the software to make a cd disk bootable.....just takes a bit of looking around on the web site... The same one to flash the BIOS if you don't have a floppy drive...

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On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 6:34 pm, DNA wrote:
>The laptop has no floppy drive (otherwise he could use the standard Win98 Startup
>floppy Disk), but you can use the files from said disk (or downloaded files
>from Bootdisk.com
>to make a bootable CD (a clone of the Startup Disk on a CD) that would do the job
>(Most CD burning programs have this option), and possibly include the Win98 Setup
>folder on the same CD....
>

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Written in response to:: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 6:34 pm)

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