Beetchin' With A Damn Laptop

I've been wrestling with this damn presario 2100 since morning. the cd/dvd and the floppy drive's is just too stupid to even read another media anymore. even the freaking hard disk made the POST hang. so, this is what i've done :

1. changed the hard disc, of course (duh!)
2. hooked up an external floppy drive (usb).
3. partition the 60gb to 2, format & copy the xp setup/installation files to the hd through usb (external casing)
4. boot up using a win98 bootdisk, load the smartdrv ( smartdrv c+ ), cd to i386 and run 'winnt'
5. i've forgot to make the c: partition to 'active' so, i went to the fdisk and set it from there.
6. run the freaking setup.

did those step twice coz i've got a damn 'parse error'. waiting for it to finish setup while collecting some ogrish pix...

hope this'll work...