Windows 98

[hsawhney]

I had vorus on my computer and all disk aspace was used.  I could not start computer.  I erased my hard disk drive by using CH000186 instructions.  I am trying to install Windows 98 using boot disk and instructions per CH000569.

After starting computer with boot disc, I change from A drive to D drive.  But I can not I can not read cd Win98 when I press enter.

Did I llose driver for CD-ROM?  How to get and install driver?

[Windows98]

Well there is no way you can lose the CD drive especially on startup. There is a CD drive. When you use a boot disk the CD drives get push up some letters

Assuming you have only 1 cd drive and 1 hard drive
Ex. A-Floppy
     
     C: Hard Drive
     
      D: CD ROM

When you get a command in start up you dont use D the drive will be pushed to the next letter E

A:/> <-Floppy
C:/> <- HArd drive
D:> <- Ram Drive
E:.> <- Temperory new CD drive

other options for running CD:

The easy way to run from the CD is enter system setup to change you boot sequence to CDROM first

[patio]

Did you select the "Start Computer with CDRom Support" when you booted to the floppy ? ?

patio.

[blue_410]

       My hard drive crashed and my backup disc does
not work to get it back.Can I use my windows 98 se
startup cd again to setup.This cd is legit and I am not
trying to put this on any other computer.How can I
get micro soft to allow me to use this cd.tks.

[Windows98]

Best thing for you to do is.. reformat first. Using the startup disk please go to option2: start CD without CD ROM support and use the following command prompts at A:/>

fomat c: /s

It will erase your hardrive and partion it to fat32

[dl65]

hsawhney....

Did I llose driver for CD-ROM?  How to get and install driver?

Yes ......... Thats why you need a win 98 Boot disk .....it contains a generic cd driver to allow the cd drive to see the win 98 disk once the boot disk has loaded .

dl65