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IBM laptop 760 no operating system

Zone: General Microsoft Operating Systems

Tags: laptop, ibm, operating, system, os

I have an old IBM thinkpad 760 that a friend gave to me for my kids to use. I decided when I got it I would wipe out everything on the hard drive, which was running windows 95, re format, and fdisk it and delete old partitions and create an active dos partition. This laptop came with both an internal floppy as well as an internal cd rom drive, but they cannot run at the same time. The problem is that when I try to boot from the cdrom it does not even know that the cdrom is there. I have tried a windows 98 boot diskett , but there is no way to run the cd, even when I get to a dos prompt. I have exchanged the floppy for the cd drive, but still nothing. I need to get any os on this laptop so I can use the cd...any suggestions? I have heared something about copying CAB files over but do not know how.
Thanks for any help!

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Zone: OS

Question Asked By: bdysherman

Solution Provided By: alagregg

Participating Experts: 8

Solution Grade: A

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