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z-tec · 06-18-2009, 08:13 AM

I have a Dell Latitude pp01s with no internal cd/floppy. Only USB and I can't get the machine to boot from it for the life of me. I have a IDE2USB adapter for the hard drive so I tried placing DOS on the hard drive and partition another drive for Win98SE but I can't get the machine to boot. I have tried using my flash drive to boot from but the machine can't find USB. It has "Removable Devices" in the BIOS for boot option but no luck. Any ideas on how I can get 98SE on this machine or at least boot in DOS? Thanks in advance!

06-18-2009, 08:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
z-tec Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 44 OS: WinXP Pro	Laptop hard drive needs OS but can't get DOS to boot! I have a Dell Latitude pp01s with no internal cd/floppy. Only USB and I can't get the machine to boot from it for the life of me. I have a IDE2USB adapter for the hard drive so I tried placing DOS on the hard drive and partition another drive for Win98SE but I can't get the machine to boot. I have tried using my flash drive to boot from but the machine can't find USB. It has "Removable Devices" in the BIOS for boot option but no luck. Any ideas on how I can get 98SE on this machine or at least boot in DOS? Thanks in advance!