Loading windows 98 SE on a Compaq armada e500 lapt

[rango25]

Trying to load Windows 98 SE on a Compaq Armada E500. First I formatted the drive and when I try to load Win98 after it seas "scanning system registry" it stops and freezes up.

[merlin_2]

TRy again>Download a boot floppy from bootdisks.com. with cdrom driver, load the f/d  and then at the A:\> SYS  C:  a message will be displayed files transfered.....now format the hard drive ....A:\> format c:  with that is done .....use this command fdisk to make the partitons active......and then this >
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000569.htm

if this fails it maybe the hard drive playing up?