Tom Cleghorn
03-20-2002, 05:04 PM
Trying to fix up a knackered '96 vintage laptop, and meeting with trouble all the way...
What seems to have happened is the installation of some academic app has gone wrong, and deleted all files from the root directory of C:\ - obviously, no windows any more :)
It's a Toshiba Satellite 210CS, a pentium of some description, 48 meg RAM, and beyond that, I can't tell you much more, since I'm struggling to even get to a workable command prompt, let alone anything that'll let me see the full system specs.
The only Win 95 boot disk I could get hold of was made on a Viglen desktop system, so I'm unsurprised there were problems with it.
The machine doesn't have a CD drive (nor is there an external one available at the moment), and the user doesn't have the windows floppies, so I can't just reinstall windows, which was my first hope :)
It refuses to boot from the Viglen boot disk - throws out various errors, which I've reproduced here (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~tc10/stepbystep.html), so I'm guessing the boot disk isn't right somehow - the contents of it I've thrown up here (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~tc10/sysfiles.html).
Just to make it all a little more difficult, the **** thing won't recognise a backslash (hence trouble copying files to the right places...), either from the keyboard on it, or from another one plugged into the PS/2 port - suspect this might be a driver issue, but god knows.
Any ideas would be *massively* appreciated :)
Cheers
What seems to have happened is the installation of some academic app has gone wrong, and deleted all files from the root directory of C:\ - obviously, no windows any more :)
It's a Toshiba Satellite 210CS, a pentium of some description, 48 meg RAM, and beyond that, I can't tell you much more, since I'm struggling to even get to a workable command prompt, let alone anything that'll let me see the full system specs.
The only Win 95 boot disk I could get hold of was made on a Viglen desktop system, so I'm unsurprised there were problems with it.
The machine doesn't have a CD drive (nor is there an external one available at the moment), and the user doesn't have the windows floppies, so I can't just reinstall windows, which was my first hope :)
It refuses to boot from the Viglen boot disk - throws out various errors, which I've reproduced here (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~tc10/stepbystep.html), so I'm guessing the boot disk isn't right somehow - the contents of it I've thrown up here (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~tc10/sysfiles.html).
Just to make it all a little more difficult, the **** thing won't recognise a backslash (hence trouble copying files to the right places...), either from the keyboard on it, or from another one plugged into the PS/2 port - suspect this might be a driver issue, but god knows.
Any ideas would be *massively* appreciated :)
Cheers