"Anderson" <Anderson_5@cox.net> wrote in message
news:xC4ch.3065$Ka4.2953@newsfe14.lga...
>I bought a dell D400 laptop for my son for christmas off of ebay. We were
>trying to hurry up and read over everything before the auction ended, and
>we missed the "small print" that said that there was no OS installed. I
>have window 98 full version on a CD, but there is no interal CD-ROM
>installed on this laptop. I have a desktop computer. Is there a way I can
>connect my laptop to the other computer and load the OS, or can I buy an
>external CD-ROM without the OS being on there and will it work? I don't
>know alot about the inner workings of a computer, so if anyone has any
>suggestions I would appreciate it.
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These people should be able to help you quickly with getting a cdrom drive
for your Dell.

http://www.priorityelectronics.com/l...l-latitude.htm

Cheers!

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