it said missing operating system *pls help*

[Sidewinder]

This post appeared in my mailbox today. Any takers?

I did fdisk my desk top awhile ago because I wanted to run windows 98 or windows Me. Before I did it the system was windows XP. Now, everytime I wants to install windows 98 CD (i firstly reboot the a:\> with diskette) but it say missing operating system. And, when I switched to C:\> prompt to setup, it said failure and need to abort.
 
I tried to changed the 1st boot device in CMOS from Floppy to HDD-1 but it doesn' help at all.  
 
*Please help me*

---Andy

[GX1_Man]

If you do not have a bootable CD version of Windows, then floppy would be the choice. By choosing to boot from the hard disk, you will have nothing there to boot.

So boot with the boot disk and type in e:setup and press enter (with the Win98 CD in the drive).