Old laptop File transfer

Well, I have a NEC Laptop I think its a 340T? the label wore off. It has a 233mhz AMD K6 in it and 64mb ram, 4 gig HD and provbably 8 or less video Mbs.

The problem is i got it from a...friend of a friend....And the thing was in bad shape software wise. The thing at Virus after virus...many of which destroyed system files and file structure. I had it running windows 98 until last week when all of the sudden....no formatted petition error....new to me. I check it out with Fdisk and find that somehow it got deleted and all thats left was unformatted non-partioned drive space. Yay Me. Now i have a laptop....which was in use, now unusable unless you find something like Firefox and Microsoft office for dos!

Ive done some research and this was my result: Its possible to copy (from another computer) a windows 98 CD (which i have) to the HD And install from that. I believe i could get it to install from dos with the startup disk if i had the cd on the drive. All it has is a useable floppy drive. The CD-ROM is unreliable and doesn't work 93.321% of the time. I have a parallel cable that is dual ended for computer to computer communication allready and from my research, i could use this to move the files. Now, How could or would i go about doing this? A utility that runs on dos? something? Can I format that c drive by way of a floppy disk first?

BTW:I have a Windows XP home and windows 98 system available as the computer to move files from if it matters.


Thanks

 

you need a laplink cable and a program called 'drive copy.

i used this stuff for many years to do that type of work.

a paralelle cable won't do the transfer.

or if you can get the harddrive out, get an adapter to fit the drive to a 40 pin cable in another pc, load win 98 on it, and then reinstall in laptop

 

You can pull the laptop drive & get an adapter so you can plug it into a regular 40 pin IDE. Put it in a desktop PC, format it and copy win98 to it, then put it back in the laptop, boot and run setup.

kinda like this http://www.pccables.com/00504.htm

 

I have one by belkin which i believe is the same as http://esd.element5.com/product.html?productid=520606&languageid=1&currencies=USD&noquickbuy=1

Would that work....?

I like the idea of putting it in another pc with that adaptor also.



Update: I got 98 instaled off of the cd, but the drive died half way through install. So...Its missing many important files....like most drivers....registry...and well many more things i though windows needed. Either way i think im going to try that adaptor for the hd.


Would this work in a windows 98 machine? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146040

I know there is a size restriction...but with fat32 would it work?