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Booting a laptop off a external cdrom

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jerry150262

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Jun 15, 2003
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I have picked up a Compac Armada 1700 with no internal cdrom in it, or windows programmed. I have an external cdrom which plugs into the printer port, i can boot it up of a start up floppy but i need help to get it to recognise the external cdrom.
 
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it is a freecom portable CDRW, using a parallel port connection
 
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