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A Johnson

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Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bays!!
« on: September 27, 2005, 09:45:03 AM »
Hi,
My older laptop recently died.  I've been trying to reinstall Windows 98SE and have found it impossible.  My laptop has swappable Floppy disk/CD Rom bays (is that right?), so there's no way for me to boot from the Win 98 boot disk, and then install from the cd rom.  PLEASE HELP!
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Computer_Commando

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Re: Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bay
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2005, 10:36:29 AM »
Win98SE CD is bootable, no need for floppy disk.
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A Johnson

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Re: Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bay
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2005, 10:59:15 AM »
Oh.  For some reason it doesn't boot for me.
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Computer_Commando

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Re: Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bay
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2005, 11:21:08 AM »
What is make and model of laptop?  CDROM drive may not be bootable.  I'm guessing it did not come with Win98.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2005, 11:21:22 AM by Computer_Commando »
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A Johnson

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Re: Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bay
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2005, 11:23:41 AM »
It's a Compaq Presario, it's about 5-6 years old.  It originally came with Win 95.
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Computer_Commando

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Re: Installing Win 98 on laptop with swappable bay
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2005, 11:47:21 AM »
Probably closer to 10 years than 5 years.  Boot with FDD and format new HDD.  Then copy Win98 CD to hard drive.  Then boot to hard drive and install Win98 from hard drive.
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