i bought a ide cd-rom and i have a 486dx2 laptop.
the guy who sold me it said i could patch an ide cable through the hard drive so i bought an ide cd drive but when i looked at my hdd from my laptop its some smaller weird thing. my laptop supoorts 2 hdds :help:

Moved again...

Perhaps its a misunderstanding between Serial and Parallel IDE cables?

If you can afford it you should seriously get another laptop. You can buy a new or second hand old laptop (PII/PIII) for like 150-250 GBP easily.

If not, then you might want to ask the guy that sold you the cable to plug it in him/herself.

There are HDD adaptors for mounting notebook HDD's into PC. If you can find one that works the other way round, it might _just_ work.

Damn Nation.
I think ill save up and get a tower thats really dodgy and so i acn fix that up.
CLOSE THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!

I've had a laptop and ditched it after a month... didn't do me any good and was hard to keep up to date with everything. Went back to a tower and a nice LCD screen... that's better and at least you know that you built it :)

yeah just i have no room 4 1 sience i have 2 share a room with my bro. PS: im not weird im 12

Well wade sun, get over this 386 crap. Period.

Sure use it as an old retro games machine but to crap on about it is useless.

I DID SAY CLOSE THIS DAMN THREAD! :ranting: