Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

buy an external cd rom off ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...739499256&rd=1

my dad had one of these and it worked fine.
if i could get to it easy i would sell it to ya cheap.
but i be in california and it be in kentucky. :(

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

yes u can if they are both linked threw lan and you get VNC. my lil bro uses it to install and do things to the one in his room from out here all the time.

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

i would just use an early edition of 95, its more stable and alot smaller than 98 (98 blows ass)you can laplink both computers in dos mode etc or somthing like that thru the paralell ports, its just slow. 95 on disks would be your best option

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

Well you can get an adapter to put a laptop hard drive in a desktop machine. They're cheap.
You could put the hard drive in the desktop machine, format it and put the OS installation files on there, then put the drive back into the laptop and run setup. You can't install Windows on one machine and expect it to actually work when you change the hardware drastically, so setup has to be run on the laptop.

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

im either going to use it with win 98 which is on it right now or try to find an adapter for a spare HD i have (has diff plugs)

Thanks all

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

Just keep it like it is. However, if you have to, uninstall any unnecessary programs taking up space and add-ins to Windows 98 that you don't need.

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

yeah thats what i've been doing. It only has a 1gig HD on there. ::)
I would just think a nice fresh reformat would do the comp good. :D

Re:Can U format a laptop through a desktop?
 

you might be able to run win2k, but i would stick with 98 i guess...