My problems are all over!!! :D

I finally managed to build-up my CF-27 OS and softwares without any MP drives and used only hard drive with 2.5" to 3.5" adapter when transfering files. It was pretty tricky as it always tried to search non-existing drives. First I wanted to use win95 but it made a lot of troubles; PCMCIA CardBus was without drivers, IDE was without drivers, it accepted wrong audio drivers and crashed and trying to have usb drivers was nightmare!!!

I lost my counts but I think I have connected hard drive between computer about one hundred time when always needed to add files or reinstall dos!

So finally I put win98 and it worked instantly! No worries with PCI or IDE drivers and USB is immediately ready!

Now I got my Panasonic KXL-810A external PCMCIA CD-rom drive working too! And as I said earlier, I bought it originally because PCMCIA was the only way to connect external drive but then only later I realized it worked using SCSI! And best of all, it supported JAZ and ZIP drives too through PC-card!!! It made my dreams come true as I originally wanted JAZ drives to work with laptop!!! Damn great... luckily I didn't spend my money to very expensive scsi to usb adapter.

Anway, there was many things that I didn't consider. For example, my previous post about when I installed win98 to hard drive and then put back to toughbook, it said invalid disc and it was just because I didn't make proper MBR (Master Boot Record) so it just couldn't boot.

Anyway, I believe now I can offer some advices to those who are still doing same what I was doing all the time. Tough job but got good experiences at least!

 

If you don't mind we'll move this thread over to the end of the other one so other members can see your solution.

Glad you figured everything out! Good job!