Dear all,
I need to install DOS 6.2 in a new laptop (totally empty, without any other Operating Sytems on board) which does not have floppy disks. I only have the disk installation software. How can I do it? Are there possibilities?
Thanks

Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

What operating system are you intending to install?XP?
Do you have the full install disk with the key code?

1.To format a hard drive you need to firstly restart the laptop and press either F1/F2 or Del.There should be a prompt on the screen for wich key to press.You will then enter BIOS,go to the boot tab and set first boot device to cd/dvd rom.

2.Put in XP disk press F10 save and exit.

3.At the Welcome to Setup page, press ENTER.

4.Note If you are using the Setup disks (6 bootable disks), the setup will prompt you to instert the Windows XP CD.

5.Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement.

6.If an existing Windows XP installation is detected, you are prompted to repair it. To bypass the repair, press ESC.

7.All the existing partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partition or the unpartitioned space where you want to create a new partition. Press D to delete an existing partition, or press C to create a new partition by using unpartitioned space. If you press D to delete an existing partition, you must then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this step for each of the existing partitions that you want to use for the new partition. When all the partitions are deleted, select the remaining unpartitioned space, and then press C to create the new partition.

Note If you want to create a partition where one or more partitions already exist, you must first delete the existing partition or partitions, and then create the new partition.

8.Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER, or just press ENTER to create the partition with the maximum size.

9.Repeat Steps 4 and 5 to create additional partitions if you want them.

10.If you want to install Windows XP, use the ARROW keys to select the partition where you want to install Windows XP, and then press ENTER. If you do not want to format the partition and install Windows XP, press F3 two times to quit the Windows Setup program, and then do not follow the remaining steps. In this case, you must use a different utility to format the partition.

11.Select the format option that you want to use for the partition, and then press ENTER. You have the following options:

•Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick)
•Format the partition by using the FAT file system (Quick)
•Format the partition by using the NTFS file system•Format the partition by using the FAT file system
•Leave the current file system intact (no changes)

The option to leave the current file system intact is not available if the selected partition is a new partition. The FAT file system option is not available if the selected partition is more than 32 gigabytes (GB). If the partition is larger than 2 GB, the Windows Setup program uses the FAT32 file system (you must press ENTER to confirm). If the partition is smaller than 2 GB, the Windows Setup program uses the FAT16 file system.

Note If you deleted and created a new System partition, but you are installing Windows XP on a different partition, you will be prompted to select a file system for both the System and startup partitions.

12.After the Windows Setup program formats the partition, follow the instructions that appear on the screen to continue. After the Windows Setup program is completed, you can use the Disk Management tools in Windows XP to create or format more partitions.

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Three suggestions:

You might be able to find an external floppy drive that connects through the PC Card socket (either new or off EBay), and if that doesn't need drivers installed you might be able to get the computer to use it to boot from. A USB one's no good - that'll need drivers.

If the laptop has a CD drive you could copy the files from the floppy disk/disks to a CD, then use the CD to install DOS.

If neither of those will work the only thing I can think of is to disconnect the hard drive from the laptop, connect it to a different computer (one with a floppy drive!) and install DOS on the hard drive using that computer, then connect it back into the laptop. But if you haven't done this sort of thing before you really ought to get an expert to do it - and in that case you're going to get the problem whenever you need to get software off a floppy disk.