[andiclarke]

Hi I have an old compaq deskpro en model #DPENS P450/6.4/64/NT US,It was formatted ..It does not have a cd-rom just a 3.5 floppy drive. i have tried going to bootdisk to download a start up disk but it is not working,(I have windows 98se on cdrom) does any one have any information or suggestions to help me load the O\S from the floppy... the spec on my computer are as follows it a p11 266 mhz . Please please help me thanks !! Anna

 

[wimpy]

Hi I have an old compaq deskpro en model #DPENS P450/6.4/64/NT US,It was formatted ..It does not have a cd-rom just a 3.5 floppy drive. i have tried going to bootdisk to download a start up disk but it is not working,(I have windows 98se on cdrom) does any one have any information or suggestions to help me load the O\S from the floppy... the spec on my computer are as follows it a p11 266 mhz . Please please help me thanks !! Anna

It;s up to you remember what you did when you bought it or did you ?
People find these out for garbage all the time.
Want to continue ?

 

[andiclarke]

It;s up to you remember what you did when you bought it or did you ?
People find these out for garbage all the time.
Want to continue ?

I purchased the computer on ebay ..I knew it did not have an OS but I didn't realize it had no Cd-Rom drive until I rcd it... Now I'm trying to purchase the CD-ROM but have been unable to find so far ... I was trying to set it up with just the floppy if that was at all possible Thanks Anna

 

[TommyBazball]

Any, cheap Cd-Rom drive will probably work on that computer, finding one might be hard. You'd be better off, and it wouldn't cost all that much more to buy a CD-RW drive.
It's possible to load 98 using just floppies if you could do two things:
1. Find someone with a cd-rom drive and copy all the files from the 98 cd onto floppies.
2. The trick though, would be getting them in an order the would follow the setup program on the disk. You might have to use Google to try and find some help on that.

It would probably be far easier to just buy the cd-rw drive and install it.

 

[andiclarke]

Any, cheap Cd-Rom drive will probably work on that computer, finding one might be hard. You'd be better off, and it wouldn't cost all that much more to buy a CD-RW drive.
It's possible to load 98 using just floppies if you could do two things:
1. Find someone with a cd-rom drive and copy all the files from the 98 cd onto floppies.
2. The trick though, would be getting them in an order the would follow the setup program on the disk. You might have to use Google to try and find some help on that.

It would probably be far easier to just buy the cd-rw drive and install it.

Ok I'll look into that as a possibilty Thanks Anna

 

[DaveBurnett]

Take the hard disk to a mates with a CDRom and copy the I386 folder to the hard disk.
You can then run the install from there.