win 98

[GX1_Man]

The XP CD can make all the boot disks you need (It is a set, not just one!), or you can get the set at www.bootdisk.com

[eiocan]

got my hands on a 98 cd,put in drive,no matter what letter i use i get invalid drive message.

[GX1_Man]

Are we sure that the CDROM is good?

[Fed]

all that is there is boot sequence a,c

I'd be looking in bios to find out why the cdrom isn't detected.

[eiocan]

i tried another cdrom thats ok,still no go,when it boots up ,it says cdrom found.bios has a,c boot sequence,this is an old machine,when it boots it says ,bios 1996.

[GX1_Man]

Since that is so (and nice to know that now!) it will not ever boot from CD, so you will have to go the boot disk route.

Since you never said, what are the specifics on the machine. (We should have been given that long before as well.)

[eiocan]

forget it

[GX1_Man]

You may want to be in touch with the PC Beginner program you paid $29.95 for. It sounds like it should do everything except brew coffee.

http://www.pcbeginner.com/tools/pcdoctor.htm

Good luck!

[Scourged]

Most 98 cds wasnt bootable anyway so youll need to boot from the floppy drive with a bootdisk floppy thats got generic dos cd drivers. A mouse driver will be handy too.