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by edogoal

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Hi,

I just got a old Dell Latitude C400, with which I have a couple of problems:

1) I am not the administrator, so I have to find the way to access the adm privileges for installing some programs (ok, not a big deal, there are CD for booting... but see my second problem)

2) the computer has no CD/floppy drive. I connected an external CD drive, via USB. Unfortunatelly that is NOT OK for having the option of booting from the CD.

What can I do? especially for probl #2?
If I could find a way of booting reading the flash drive I would have no problems, but this seems not to be possible (is it? moreover I am not the administrator).

How can I get to the bios during the booting for trying doing something?

Thanks

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by deepsand

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

by mmlmtlca

Get yourself a module or modular (?) bay cable on eBay...

I was just able to load the OS with a reinstall OS CD that was in the CD drive at boot up. My purchase paid off after i thought it still wouldn;t work!

Good luck!

by deepsand

Aside for the other Forums, there are 2 which are open to all for purposes of initiating "discussion." One is the "Questions" forum, for purposes of seeking help with a Techincal problem or issue; the other, the "Discussions" forum is for all other purposes.

This question posted here belongs in the "Question" forum, as I above advised, at
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=224182&messageID=2244314 .

We do not wish to encourage those who mis-post to the incorrect forum by way of, in this case, offering up advice.

Also, before posting, read what others have already said.

Thank you for your co-operation.

And, welcome aboard.

by noelc

i have these old leptop that was working very good but one day the hd crashed and i have to change it now the problem is how to reinstal windows or other o/s just beacuse i dont have and external optical drive with a modular baycable and true usb is not possible to work. can you help me is ther another way to do this?????

by kevstead67

put ur harddrive in another laptop and instal either 98 or millenium edition then u can put it back into ur dell and it will run allowing you to use external usb drive to either update or fresh install works a treat usin said dell to write this post on now mine is 866 model but still fast for its age good luck

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