I have a laptop with no CD-Rom or floppy

[Mimi]

I need to reload an operating system after formatting and partioning my hard drive, but since there is no CD built in to the laptop (I have one that uses a PCMCIA card interface)an operating system doesn't recognize the CD as even being there to load the operating system. I thought maybe I should ghost an operating system onto the laptop, but I've never done that before. Can anyone tell me what type of connection I would use between my desktop and the laptop if I were going to ghost an operating system onto said laptop? Any other hints or information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Hairy]

look for something like this?
http://www.mycableshop.com/sku/IDE4044.htm

copy the Windows folder to the laptops drive and put the drive back in the laptop and run setup.....

just my guess

 

[JohnWill]

Hairy has the correct solution, I have a couple of these that I use for laptop drives.

 

[Mimi]

Does the laptop drive show up as another drive when it is plugged in, and you just copy to that drive as though it were a part of the desktop? And where do you plug that cable in on the desktop, the IDE connection?

 

[JohnWill]

When you use the adapter, the laptop drive becomes just another IDE drive. Note that you have to make sure that it doesn't conflict with another drive in the system, it's best to put it on a separate port if you can, so you don't have to tinker with it's jumpering. Many laptop drives aren't all that well marked as far as jumpering is concerned, I guess they think they don't have enough room to write it down!

 

[Mimi]

Thanks for everyones input. I'll locate the correct cable and give it a shot! I'll let you know what happens. Thanks again.