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Salvaging an OLD laptop
a friend of my dad's just gave us his old laptop.
i knew it didnt work but i didnt know the problem when i took it in. it gave me a shitload off error messages and had tons of problems.
anyway, here is what i know about it
it's an ibn thinkpad
got about 4 gb's of space
it has winnt on it.
file system is fat 32 i think
so, i boot up w/ a 98 bootdisk and i look thru the files.
the i386 directory is still intact, so i might be able to reinstall winnt on there.
i wanna put win98 on there, but there is a couple of prob's.
1) it doesnt have cdrom drive
2) no network card either
it has a modem out, but i dont have a dial up account.
it has serial ports, but i dont have the wires to hook it up and i dont know how to do that.
so, what can i do w/ this?
try to install winnt from the 386 folder?
put dos on there?
put win 3.1 on there (thru floppy's)?
any suggestions are welcome
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