Hitachi Lap Top Problem  | | 
May 31st, 2002, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: New York, USA
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I was given a Hitachi E133DN.
It has no OS & no cd-rom drive.
In order for an external cd-rom (PCMCIA) to work I need at least Win 95 loaded.
Any suggestions on how to get Windows on this machine?
P133
16 MB Ram
3 1/2 Floppy
1 Gig Hd
No NIC
No Internal cd-rom capability
slot for 2 PCMCIA II or 1 PCMCIA III, don't know if it's 16 bit or
32 bit.
Thanks for any help,
Chef | 
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May 31st, 2002, 06:29 PM
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| | A hero in training
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA
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boot up to a floppy disk that has a win98 disk www.bootdisk.com 
have you tried that? | |
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May 31st, 2002, 06:38 PM
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Hey GroundZero3,
I have a win98 bootdisk but I don't think it will recognize a PCMCIA CD-rom drive.
I don't have one & don't want to buy it if it won't work.
Hitachi support says it won't work.
They said to buy Win95 on floppies!
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May 31st, 2002, 07:43 PM
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Chef:
I've got one of these laptops myself, and on mine the ram is upgraded to 32MB. I tried to put Win98SE on it and it ran like a dog. In fact, it ran so slow I reformatted and put Win95 back on.
Back to your original question, I bought an external CD-ROM from a friend to install the OS. I don't know if you can buy a cheapie NIC and have it install under dos.
I would try to find someone with an external and borrow that.
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May 31st, 2002, 07:48 PM
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| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Clovis, CA
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Or swap your HDD into another machine, copy a Win95 CD image onto it, and install from there? You'd have to partition the HDD, but I think that will work.
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May 31st, 2002, 08:32 PM
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Thanks for the ideas,
have to go play Chef!
Chef | |
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May 31st, 2002, 08:56 PM
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| | Uncommon Man
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: State College, PA
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well, the win95 directory on that CD contains the entire install. The CAB files seem to be 1.6MB apiece, so if you formatted a bunch of floppies with one of those utilities that could format disks a little bit larger, then you could put each cab on a disk and copy them all to a win95 directory on your c: drive on the laptop. That might take a bit of work though...
In fact, this article indicates this is exactly how win95 on floppies came: http://www.byte.com/documents/s=204/BYT19991103S0010/
I used to use one of those programs back when I would log my 386/16 with 8 meg of ram to log onto a local BBS  .
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