omnibook driver and loading probs

[dave the cod]

hi all i think i am in need of some drivers ,i have got an omnibook 6000 that i bought and all windows had been removed ,i downloaded the 4 floppy disc set up (as this is the drive it came with)connected my external dvd to the usb port and tried to load windows ,it got to the main windows is now setting up please press enterto install at which it will not find windows and starts to re-boot . i have now bought a cd drive for it and it still wont find anything anyone got any ideas as all i keep doing is going round in circles

[3fingersalute]

Do you actually have a Windows cd? If so, you'll need to boot to the cd-rom, and follow the on screen instructions to get windows loaded back onto the machine.

[PBase001]

Can you boot off USB at all? To boot from USB is a function of the BIOS. If not, consider getting a cheap laptop to IDE adapter.

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...=906&sku=17705

Connect the drive as a slave in a desktop computer and format in FAT32 and copy the files from your Windows CD to the HD, in a directory of your choice, say, <XPInstall>.

Download or create a Win98SE bootdisk. Make sure you have smartdrv.exe on the bootdisk, such as...

http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml

Download the Boot Disk Essentials boot disk. Run the file you download and you'll create the bootdisk for you.

Put your laptop drive back into the laptop and boot off the bootdisk. Since the bootdisk is a Win98SE bootdisk, it can only see Fat16/32 formatted HD.

Once you boot into the Command Prompt <A:\>, run <smartdrv.exe>.

This will use your memory as a cache for moving files. Trust me, it'll be very slow otherwise.

You should be able to access your laptop HD via <C:>

Go to <\XPInstall\i368>

Run WINNT.EXE to begin the install process.

[dave the cod]

i have windows 2000 disc but it will not show anytime i load either by internal drive or by my external drive ,i was looking on ebay yesterday and a guy in canada is selling a cd that describes the solution to my problem exactly he is an ex microsoft pro,he has written a programme to solve the problem in that you load the disc in and it will automatically load a driver to recognise the cd drive in the port (at the mo mine is not doing this it is not reading any disc i put in only floppy drive)the trouble is i cannot get a reply from him as to cost of mailing ,i tried paypal but it will not let me complete due to shipping costs ta dave

[PBase001]

You could boot via floppy and install a USB device for free on your own...

http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm

Please keep in mind that DOS USB CDrom/HDD/zip/etc. drivers is a brand new and developing area so there is no one single method that is guaranteed to work on every PC. If you try a few methods and have no luck, keep at it and dont worry as I'm confident there is enough information here to get at least 99% of the USB drives to work in dos.

They have no images for you to built off, but they provide examples of what you have to do in your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

So you DL one of the bootdisks, Win98SE is a safe bet and also DL the USB drivers they provide for any of the 4 methods they outline. Put those drivers on the bootdisk and make the appropriate changes to your autoexec.bat and config.sys as they outlined in the above link.

Cross your fingers put the boot floppy in your laptop and good luck.

Let us know how it works out.

This will not autoboot your CD, but it will give you USB CD/DVD drive access and assign it a drive letter.

You'll still have to install via WINNT.EXE.