Start-up will not recognise CD

I have a friend who has a very old PC - totally infested with bugs.
In the spirit of a good neighbour I have tried to help him, & finally in
desperation used the Fdisk & format programs to start anew.
However the setup in Fdisk to load windows 98 fails because the start-up
disk will not find a driver for the CD (startup identifies it as a Mat****a
cr-574) I have no original software for the PC.
Right now we are totally stuck with a formatted HD, & no way to load windows
--- could you please help?

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Stan

You can make a floppy boot disk with generic drivers--see the instructions
he For information on installing W98, go to:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html


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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"Stan" wrote in message
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I have a friend who has a very old PC - totally infested with bugs.
In the spirit of a good neighbour I have tried to help him, & finally in
desperation used the Fdisk & format programs to start anew.
However the setup in Fdisk to load windows 98 fails because the start-up
disk will not find a driver for the CD (startup identifies it as a
Mat****a
cr-574) I have no original software for the PC.
Right now we are totally stuck with a formatted HD, & no way to load
windows
--- could you please help?

--
Stan