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Ummmm. that doesn't say whether it's a Notebook with a Touchpad or not.

Can you NAME that "special program" or is it a (secret)?

Worrisome... shouldn't take more than about 45min->1hr (guesstimate) overall with a "stock" install on that hardware. BTW, there's a limit to the HDD (see Sticky topics) partition size. This can hoke you up. Many "workarounds" available. Get all available drivers ready and waiting, particularly the Chipset drivers (always installed first). SATA devices will definitely mess you up on Win98, the reason I suggested IF POSSIBLE disable the SATA controllers entirely.edit - hmmm. I misunderstood? The install was (at least partially) successful?

OK - an A8-LE is a Notebook. Yours must be an A8AE-LE here. The following are conflicting statements. Channels for IDE/PATA come in "pairs" attached to a given connector om the MoBo (see specs link). The Cable should have 3 connectors - one end for Mobo, the other end for Master Device, and the center for Slave Device. Two connectors on MoBo + 2 Devices per connector = 4 PATA Devices. Other two Connectors are the SATA Connectors - they are handled individually (no "chaining"). PATA Pairs1+2 are called Primary / Pairs3+4 are called Secondary. Jumpers on the back of a PATA Device are used to indicate which position on the Cable. See documentation OR the back of/on top of the given Device for jumper setting. CD/DVD usually have a Jumper on either Master (MS) or Slave (SL) - ignore Cable Select (CS). Hard Drives also have this BUT some manufacturers require the Jumper to be removed as Master with No Slave in Chain. Your BIOS may have someplace to "disable" the SATA if necessary. I believe having any SATA HDD will cause boot to it by default. "NONE" indicates nothing is there. You SHOULD (or maybe not) be able to select those items and "disable" them. Ther might be another place in it to "disable" the Controller (the PATA "pairs" and/or SATA). HP/Compaq BIOS are Phoenix-based and "altered" from the Maker of the MoBo to OEM specifications. Notice the Chip ID's in the pic (above link) - Chipset Drivers more than likely caused the problems with your WIN98 HDD "swap". You CANNOT take a WIN98 Installed to HDD on an INTEL board and put it into (e.g.) a VIA Board and expect it to boot - DIFFERENT chipsets. Dig into what a "chipset" is... More info here.

You DO realize you can't just "swap" Win9x HDD PC->PC don't you? Chipset Drivers are the first to fail. Win3.x/DOS has no clue as to that and will "work". WinXP has some "generic" drivers that will function, as does Win7. That was mistake #1. BIOS - does the IDE channels/Devices have "Auto" set in them? If they (ANY of them) are "disabled" (or "none") nothing will get detected. Have you entered the BIOS and looked around? Usually there's a Function Key that you can press to get "defaults" or "setup" settings. And the Cables have to be good. And the Device must be in the correct position on the Cable and the Jumpers must be set accordingly. IOW, if the PATA HDD functioned then the CD/DVD should function unless it is bad. And to BOOT to a CD/DVD, you MUST set (again in BIOS) the CD/DVD as the FIRST boot device.

...OR the BIOS is incorrectly set up. If the same board here you indicate Bad/incorrectly jumpered Drives? Bad cables?

Find and install (e.g.) Vuze or BitTorrent. As you can see folks retain the DriverPacks on their HDD and "seeders" means # of sources / "leechers" means # of folks downloading. This is a P2P sharing mechanism. Perfectly safe. Get the P2P Torrent software directly from the Official "maker". What you download from DriverPacks is a "xxx.torrent" file usable by the software to "interface" with the "seeders" for download of the actual Pack. edit - please note that many "warez" sites use this mechanism. DO NOT use it for illegal purposes!

??? Back-track FireFox to v3.6.28... I thought I indicated that. And TURN OFF FF AUTOUPDATE ENTIRELY!!!

Your first post: still tells nothing. All the correct Drivers installed? We HAVE to know the actual Computer Motherboard. You describe everything BUT that. Pictures of a Tower will do no good.

EXTREMELY fine line... Doubting that said "game" is anything BUT a single game "installed" on the HDD. Google clone ps2 hard drive http://psx-scene.com/forums/f98/how-clone-ps2-hard-drive-23908/ This kind of indicates an OS (PS2?) is installed and that said game(s) are run from it. If the drive "fails" it makes sense that a complete replacement is required (HDD plus OS and Game preinstalled).

Just out of curiosity - why Firefox 10 ESR? Try an earlier version. There's lots of threads on this. This indicates the last "officially supported" version. Look at this and this. Notice that Frogman (see his sig.) use the LAST 3.x version. Kex will be necessary anyway. This is even the one I use right now (on an NT-based OS).

"Makelocalsource" only does it temporarily in (one of) the $-folders. I usually create a folder, put the I386 folder and the required ROOT files into it, then run the WINNT32 against it. Again, ensure that the drive specs are C-Drive. I create mine from a LiveXP, making it "X-drive" and the single installed (or others as "not installed" in BIOS) HDD+CreatedPartition (being C-drive at that point), and do the base-copying of Install via Network (or on the LiveXP).

The MBR is "suggested" to be an NT5-type. NT FORMAT will correctly create the PBR for the partition. It needs to be "active". Copy said files/folders and away you go. Prepping a HDD with correct MBR/PBR, setting Active, running WINNT32, then "cloning" is a fast method. This has been my experience. edit: Ensure that the C-drive is the one "pointed to" in the Setup files. I also see no "BOOT.INI"...

OK!!!! Did you ALSO Integrate the MoBo Chipset Drivers and ANY OTHER Drivers necessary? (maybe I missed that...)

??? Didn't I say that???

First, there was probably an "unrepairable" (by AV software) problem in the Registry. Some "trojans" intentionally change many things (autoupdate/firewall/antivirus). Malwarebytes should have found that and corrected it. This was the case with a FAKE Antivirus that many folks inadvertently "click" on (cleaned two of those before). Second, an "over-the-top" Reinstall (aka "Repair Install") won't cure many Registry problems nor will it "remove" the "baddies". If the CD is a FULL OEM-supplied CD (as I had described the difference between the two "types") and it was used (as an "over-the-top" which I suspect to be the case) then I might recommend that WHEN the new laptop is obtained that a CLEAN INSTALL be done to it, thus "curing the magic" (i.e. REFORMAT the partition and boot to the CD). I would be willing to bet this is the case. IOW, why "toss" a (potentially) perfectly good PC. Suggest a FULL SCAN with MalwareBytes in Safe Mode without Internet (after MBAM Update of course). (p.s. the "Shutdown" MAY have been "altered" somehow to "Restart")

It's the result of integration. nLite uses NLITE.INF to remove/modify ("tweak") components. nLite itself is not actually "installed". Why it's showing I'm not sure - the "HIDE" in SYSOC.INF should have prevented that. Did you see the "description"? You apparently did some of that. edit - You DID use the latest from http://www.nliteos.com right?

Having fun I see. Can't say as I can blame you. Please cease with the l33t spk. It makes (almost) no sense and makes it extremely difficult to read. Preactivation rules - 1 - The BIOS must be SLP-enabled 2 - Each manufacturer has their own unique SLP code 3 - The OEMBIOS fileset must match the SLP code 4 - Only the internal OEM key for the given manufacturer will allow preactivation 5 - The internal key is different between Home and Pro 6 - COA sticker keys will not cause preactivation 7 - Only clean OEM installs (AFAIK) will preactivate (ref. WINNT.SIF/UNATTEND.TXT) The above basically explains why you got the response about a "global" preactivation. All of this information is here on MSFN. Look around first before requesting "how to" on a subject that has been answered many times before. (edit - cdob got there first...) This Forum is not like many others (but similar some others). HTH

I haven't looked all of this over (the links given), but either - 1) leave as-is and GRUB will un-g-zip it (?see MENU.LST info that MUST be in the links) 2) use 7-zip to un-g-zip it and use MENU.LST (as it MIGHT say "how-to-load-an IMA") If it says DON'T decompress, then there MUST be further instructions on the GRUB/MENU.LST portion. NOTE: Grub by default looks for filename MENU.LST to get its bootload instructions. Grub4DOS (similar to straight "grub") help is here. edit - jaclaz was trying to point you in the right direction. You didn't travel far enough down the road? HTH

Ummm... the link goofed up (.html went AWOL) Try copy/paste this - http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%20900%20-%20RB80526RY900128%20(BX80526F900128).html (blanks are embedded - KRAP! It truncated it again!) "Celeron 1998 32 Low-cost version of Pentium II, Pentium III and Pentium 4 processors." Try this one (directly to all the Celeron links) - http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/index.html Now... you keep talking about Mendecino (WIKIWIKI) - How about later Coppermine/Tualatin? They can ALSO be on MoBo's with PC133 - It's SDRAM!!! You have already stated that Socket370 comes in various "flavors" - THIS site will help you determining WHAT will/may work... I use it all the time. (NOTES: Willamette and up are NOT Socket370 and use DDR and up / Covington is older SECC/Slot). Seriously, Wiki STINKS! And... google "Everest Home Edition 2.20" (w/o quotes), install and run it to see EXACTLY what your MoBo is. This will remove some "guesswork". HTH

Well, you'd better learn how UNATTENDED works first. A smidgen of help here here. On the XP CD in the Support\Tools folder is DEPLOY.CAB which contains "SETUPMGR.EXE" and great REF.CHM (help file). You can run the SETUP.EXE in that folder to install any/all necessary tools. At the LEAST extract REF.CHM and look it over. Check it out... BTW, the UNATTENDED link you got naturally assumes you know some about it (much info about WINNT.SIF was from the REF).

BWAHAHA - "assignment" - BWAHAHAHAH! You get an "F" for plagiarizing! BTW, an nLited CD/ISO is easily recognized. Better hope Teach doesn't know about it.

Ummm... no... check CPU-World instead. PC133 could be the "later" version. I've had several of those (both "versions"). They may look the same and the CPU's will even fit but the wiring is different. "Better" Socket370 Celerons - http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%20900%20-%20RB80526RY900128%20(BX80526F900128).html Wiki is not such a hot place to get specs...

ndishlp.sys - in NET9.CAB PRECOPY2.CAB has three LAYOUTx.INF files. Most/all files are listed in a/l one of them. The number at the beginning of the name is the CAB number, found at the top of the list. This file is listed in LAYOUT1.INF. HTH

NO!!!! Don't use a 9v! The specs are for 3v!!!!! If I'm too late, hope you didn't booger your board!