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Originally posted by The_Dude
that's a nifty way to do it.
i have a question though, it doesnt recognize the entire hd space.
fdisk says i have almost 5 gigs and i can only see about 2.5 gigs of it. i dont know where the hell the rest is at.
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The disk's most likely partitioned; the C: drive is FAT (NOT FAT32, as NT4 can't work with that), and the second partition is NTFS. IBM factory installs of NT4 were always like that, as soon as their HD's passed 4gb (the largest partition you can create during NT setup). NT4 could handle FAT partitions up to 4gb, even though DOS/Win* have always been limited to 2gb.
An NTFSpartition is not accessible from a bootdisk unless you load a driver in your config.sys...presuming you're even able to come up with such a driver...
Definitely the easiest way to get a modern OS onto a laptop with no CD or NIC is to pull the HD and stick it into another machine.
I have two suggestions to that end...you can get the required adaptor for $7 + s/h from
www.pc-pitstop.com, or PM someone here who'd be willing to do the job for you if you don't want to/have the time to.