MS-DOS - WIN98 - CD/DVD recognition

[AZrattler]

Son crashed his T22 :-/

However, he has lost all his product software - and previously installed W2000.  When he installed the W2000 he deleted all his Think Pad Hot Keys.

We are having to rebuild the system.  IBM says they no longer support W98.

We obtained a W98 Statup Disk, and did an FDISK and did a FORMAT c: /s.  

It installed the autoexe, etc. in a D: drive.  Now when we boot - we go to the c: dos prompt.

The computer does not recognize the CD/DVD Rom drive.  We have the ROM driver on floppy - but we do not know how we can get the computer to recognize the CD/DVD Rom drive to use the Win 98 CD to get the computer up and running.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,
AZ Rattler

[AZrattler]

W98 was the original operating system.

DeeDee Smith - AZ Rattler

[Zzyzx]

Hi,

When you formatted the c: drive with the /s switch you made the hard drive bootable. Try formatting the c: drive without any switches. When that completes, put the Win98 disk in the CD drive and boot the system.

If that doesn't work, go into "setup" (there should be an indicator during boot as to which key to hit to enter setup) and change the order of the boot process, so that the first device it checks is the CD.

Good luck and let us know how you make out.