I don't know if this is the right forum but...

[Pike11]

What is wrong when Diskette boot failure comes up on the screen. I inserted a boot disk and hit enter, but the same thing came up again. What do I do?

[Dusty]

Well, I don't know if this is the right forum either.

What OS are you using???

It's usual to insert a boot disk and reboot not hit Enter.  What are you trying to achieve and is the bootdisk for Win.98??

[cjkgmgod]

Your BIOS might not have the correct boot up sequence.

Are you sure it is a boot disk?

Did you restart the computer with the boot disk in the drive instead or just pressing enter?

What OS are you running?

More info please

[Raptor]

What is wrong when Diskette boot failure comes up on the screen. I inserted a boot disk and hit enter, but the same thing came up again. What do I do?

Try a different bootdisk. Perhaps it's corrupt.

[merlin_2]

do you get any noises when this happens?

[Pike11]

i have the boot disk for win 98. No opreating system. I have tried putting in teh disk and turning on teh pc. Right now teh boot sequence starts with A:. NO there isn't any noises. And i tried another boot disk.

[Computer_Commando]

...Right now teh boot sequence starts with A:. ....

Are you saying hard drive won't boot, floppy disk does boot?

[merlin_2]

what make is the hard drive and how old is it?

[Pike11]

Yes the Hard drive dosen't boot. I'm not sure of teh make or model.

[dl65]

Pike11.....I dont know what your trying to do....format ?

i have the boot disk for win 98. No opreating system. I have tried putting in teh disk and turning on teh pc. Right now teh boot sequence starts with A:. NO there isn't any noises. And i tried another boot disk.

If you have wiped the drive clean there is no longer anything left .....so we use a win 9X boot disk .......It must have several dos files and drivers to make the cd drive operational........just a word of caution .....some boot disks dont have the necessary files on them to do the job......Go to Bootdisk.com and D/l the appropriate on .   Then things should go as they should.......You have formatted and reinstalled a operating system before haven't you or is this the first time ?

let us know

dl65  

[SUPERBUG77]

LOL FORMAT!

[Computer_Commando]

How to install Microsoft Windows 98.