Heres an installing problem some of you will have fun trying to figure out

Something happened to my computer and I can't start up
windows...i have tried everything in all troubleshooting
guides and trust me it wont start up. I have the
installation disk for W98 and have seen times when the
disk was in if I wanted to boot from disc. Now i want to
boot from disc and im not being asked to. I have gone
into command prompt and tried searching all directories
and I can find my CD drive. So it seems I can't get into
my installaton disc and I dont care about anything on the
computer so if I am required to clear everything from the
computer before installing I am open to it. HAVE FUN and
thanks.

I'm not sure I understand the problem, but I think you are saying that the
boot to hard disk does not give you access to the CD drive for re-installing
Windows.

You should not boot to hard disk to re-install Windows. Get a utility for
creating a boot floppy at www.bootdisk.com and create a floppy and boot to
it. Note the letter assigned to the CD (probably R). Insert the CD and
install Windows from the CD.

If the system won't boot to floppy then access BIOS setup and make sure that
the floppy disk drive is set first in the boot sequence.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Duck Sauce" wrote in message
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Something happened to my computer and I can't start up
windows...i have tried everything in all troubleshooting
guides and trust me it wont start up. I have the
installation disk for W98 and have seen times when the
disk was in if I wanted to boot from disc. Now i want to
boot from disc and im not being asked to. I have gone
into command prompt and tried searching all directories
and I can find my CD drive. So it seems I can't get into
my installaton disc and I dont care about anything on the
computer so if I am required to clear everything from the
computer before installing I am open to it. HAVE FUN and
thanks.

okay.... it kinda sounds like u have an older
computer..... try booting off a windows 98 startup disk
with cdrom suport. If there is no luck there, go into
your bois, and change the boot sequence to cdrom (or the
ltter of your cdrom) (drive) (drive)
then try to boot offa the cd.. good luck,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
Something happened to my computer and I can't start up
windows...i have tried everything in all troubleshooting
guides and trust me it wont start up. I have the
installation disk for W98 and have seen times when the
disk was in if I wanted to boot from disc. Now i want
to
boot from disc and im not being asked to. I have gone
into command prompt and tried searching all directories
and I can find my CD drive. So it seems I can't get
into
my installaton disc and I dont care about anything on
the
computer so if I am required to clear everything from
the
computer before installing I am open to it. HAVE FUN and
thanks.
.