i have recently recieved a gateway solo 5300 notebook as a gift and it has no cd drive or operating system on it. how do i get an operating system on this notebook. i have tried to use a external cd drive but ms-dos does not pick it up through usb ports. i also used a external harddrive but like the previous ms-dos does not pick it up. what do i do? thank you for even reading this

first go into bios and try to alter boot up order...sometimes it has usb on

if that doesn't work, do you have a spare laptop drive or could you buy one (fairly cheap nowadays

russ