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Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM working good so far
There was a recent deal at NewEgg on the SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM 32MB drives, so I decided to risk it as opposed to the other WD & Seagate 2tb drives. I installed them, upgraded the ...
Hi eco001
I've been banging away all afternoon. Laptop is old and hardware could well be the fault. I've tried lots of variations and images and keystrokes, i.e. del, F2, esc....
No good. But I managed Bios this morning.....I've just given up the ghost. I'm just loading a stable copy of XP home. Fresh install. After all of that, I've come to the conclusion with the help of google that my laptop probably doesn't have 'usb boot' option in it's bios. So it's going to have to be the cd option you suggested.
So now for the rest of however long I'll be looking into making a bootable cd. Any suggestions help?
I keep coming across articles in google stating an .iso should be bootable. Do you agree with that?
I'm going to try with toast on mac. I'm d/loading nero from somewhere, but it's slow. In case xp doesn't like the toast iso.
I'm not sure how to get all necessary files burnt onto disk. Do I just iso 'DOS files' aswell as 'samsungpatch.exe' in one hit. And the cd will boot into the Dos files and then I execute the patch file from the disc? I've just realised the DOS files I'm thinking of are from the 'flashstick usb bootable' program. So they might be useless with the cd. So I need some program that'll give me DOS files for cd to iso?
Give me a holler people. Links anything to push me the right way to pull off this 'bootable cd, dos files,, samsung patch debacle'.
I've been banging away all afternoon. Laptop is old and hardware could well be the fault. I've tried lots of variations and images and keystrokes, i.e. del, F2, esc....
No good. But I managed Bios this morning.....I've just given up the ghost. I'm just loading a stable copy of XP home. Fresh install. After all of that, I've come to the conclusion with the help of google that my laptop probably doesn't have 'usb boot' option in it's bios. So it's going to have to be the cd option you suggested.
So now for the rest of however long I'll be looking into making a bootable cd. Any suggestions help?
I keep coming across articles in google stating an .iso should be bootable. Do you agree with that?
I'm going to try with toast on mac. I'm d/loading nero from somewhere, but it's slow. In case xp doesn't like the toast iso.
I'm not sure how to get all necessary files burnt onto disk. Do I just iso 'DOS files' aswell as 'samsungpatch.exe' in one hit. And the cd will boot into the Dos files and then I execute the patch file from the disc? I've just realised the DOS files I'm thinking of are from the 'flashstick usb bootable' program. So they might be useless with the cd. So I need some program that'll give me DOS files for cd to iso?
Give me a holler people. Links anything to push me the right way to pull off this 'bootable cd, dos files,, samsung patch debacle'.
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