help with dell latitude laptop......

[tgg]

Ok I have this old dell laptop latitude LS which is a p3 400mhz I beleive I saw that during bootup and it will run win2000, nt, 98, according to that that little sticker label on the front. Now currently when booting up it goes to a windows 98 command promt with the c: prompt flashing. Is there a way to load up windows from there?



If not then How is it possible to install a windows os? Theres no floppy drive, cdrom drive, just a docking staition, pcmia slot, usb port etc

 

[swatbat]

Boot into the BIOS and set the CDROM as first drive and throw the disk in and restart....

Yea it sounds like someone formated it with /s option. Anyway OP you can boot the machine off a cd and install windows or get a boot disk from bootdisk.com and boot it off a floppy drive with cdrom drivers on it. This is if you can find a cheap set of drives for it.

You can also hook the hard drive up to a desktop using an adapter and copy the windows install files to it and start the setup from that command prompt.

Edit:
Ok MajorDomo's post was here when I looked in here. O well.

 

[CommanderFrank]

See if you can find an external CD ROM drive and install from there

ninja edit.....I saw where he didn't have and external media drives....

 

[blendingnoise]

I had this problem a while back. I ended up finding USB drivers for dos and then installing them and then installing windows 98 that way but I had to find a floppy drive atleast. If that wasn't going to work for me my next option was to pull HD out and do what swatbat said.

edit: I installed damn small linux on my old compaq armada instead of windows. It should be easy to copy to (50MB) pcmcia or usb and boot off external media.