CF28M P3 600E Posts, but hangs when installing any Windows variant

I just received a toughbook CF28mbfabem notebook from ebay today. Came with a windows 98SE COA. 20 GB hd, 384mb, Ex RIM owned machine. On ebay they showed it with a fresh windows XP install. I received it with a wiped hard drive... So far I can only get it to work with a boot disk. I've done a win95 install all the way through to win xp sp3... it installs to the point of the first reboot after copying the various files to the hard drive. After that, it just sits. I've swapped the drive with 3 other known good drives, same thing. If I remove the hard drive, the computer boots up then says can't find operating system. I can get it to boot up off of a floppy or cd boot disk to msdos, but that is it. Do I specifically need the OEM recovery discs? Or is there something else I'm missing.

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