[Bitburger]

It is in the upper left corner. I have notice a lite on the RH side of laptop that is lite. Steady lite,

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Can you hear the cd-rom spinning up as it copies files...or is it just sitting there?

[wannabe1]

Can you hear the cd-rom spinning up as it copies files...or is it just sitting there?

[Bitburger]

Update
It hung up and on reboot it said WINIST0.400 was damage. Fixed , them amount of free space was wrong. Fixed. Insatalled 98SE . Now it reboots and say vnetbios.vxd missing. Where do I find or will it be picked up with XP installation?
OH on F1 bios . It Config=Network,Wake on Lan and Flash on Lan disabled.
As it went thu 98 installation and updating plug and play and other item it found iit did not read D:
After reboot and putting XP upgrade in everything is goinf fine.

[wannabe1]

Outstanding!

The XP Upgrade will fix a lot of what is ailing...let me know if you run into any problems... I'll be bouncing around here for a few more hours tonight.

wannabe1

[Bitburger]

I hope this helps other people with the same problem.
Thanks

[wannabe1]

I'm sure it will. I learned a lot! I'll know a different approach to the problem the next time I see it...

[Bitburger]

Could you tell me what a USB Flash drive would do for me?

[wannabe1]

In reading about the T30...which I did a considerable amount of the last couple days...we could have used a flash drive like a floppy, copied the startup disk to it, and booted to it. It was stated that it only works on certain builds of that machine, but it sure would have been worth a try.....