reformating hard drive without floppy drive

can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how do
you boot to it?

Yes you can, if your computer supports booting from CDROM. That would be
configured in the BIOS (hardware) configuration for the computer, not from
within Windows. You'd need a CD burning program that supports burning a
boot floppy to CD.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm



"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how
do
you boot to it?

"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how
do
you boot to it?


the win98se cdrom should be self booting...
set your bios to boot from cdrom first
then bootup with your cd in the drive

No, it shouldn't. Retail Windows 98 CDs are not self-booting. Some OEM CDs
are but you might not want to boot from them as you might just start
reinstalling Windows.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm



"philo" wrote in message
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"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how
do
you boot to it?


the win98se cdrom should be self booting...
set your bios to boot from cdrom first
then bootup with your cd in the drive

i have an old 200MHz that i want to use basically as a printer server...but
everything is so corrupted, i.e. can't use the mouse, not reading network
card, floppy drive has become inoperable, and doesn't read two of my 3
cd-roms. I have set it up in that setup portion you get by pushing F1 when
you first start the computer up, to boot to the cd-rom and then the hard
drive. Is this the bios that everyone's talking about? Then i have my
Windows 98SE update, and Windows 98 cd-roms. Now what exactly do i do

pretend i'm a kindergartener...

thanks

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Yes you can, if your computer supports booting from CDROM. That would be
configured in the BIOS (hardware) configuration for the computer, not from
within Windows. You'd need a CD burning program that supports burning a
boot floppy to CD.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm



"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how
do
you boot to it?

That's going to be a bit difficult since each computers' BIOS (hardware
setup) options vary depending on brand, model, even motherboard type. It
sounds as if you have correctly configured the boot options - CDROM first,
motherboard second, so now you need a bootable CDROM disc.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm



"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
...
i have an old 200MHz that i want to use basically as a printer server...but
everything is so corrupted, i.e. can't use the mouse, not reading network
card, floppy drive has become inoperable, and doesn't read two of my 3
cd-roms. I have set it up in that setup portion you get by pushing F1
when
you first start the computer up, to boot to the cd-rom and then the hard
drive. Is this the bios that everyone's talking about? Then i have my
Windows 98SE update, and Windows 98 cd-roms. Now what exactly do i do

pretend i'm a kindergartener...

thanks

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

Yes you can, if your computer supports booting from CDROM. That would be
configured in the BIOS (hardware) configuration for the computer, not
from
within Windows. You'd need a CD burning program that supports burning a
boot floppy to CD.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm



"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and
how
do
you boot to it?

Another option: The last time I priced one, a floppy drive sold for about
$11 here in San Antonio. Or you could temporarily install a drive from
another machine.
--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"mkskyflyer" wrote in message
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can you use a cd-rom for a startup disk, such as the win98se cd, and how
do
you boot to it?