PurePwnage

Alright, so there was my old sisters laptop that she doesn't use anymore sitting around. Figured: Hey, it's still useful. I can use it for internet.

So I went online, figured out how to make a boot disk and all, formatted, and suddenly. I've done something wrong.

It's all formatted, partition's have been made, but it won't let me boot from the D: Drive!!!

All it says when I boot is: "Operating System not Found"

Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.

PS: No tengo un "floppy disk drive" en mi computadora.

And the boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) has to be on a floppy disk supposedly?

Motoxrdude

You need to actually install windows 98. All you did was erase everything off the hard drive, but never installed windows 98 back onto it.

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The_Other_One

Check the bios and see if there's an option for booting off the optical drive. If not, what type of laptop is it. Some had external floppy drives(and I don't mean USB ones) that you had to purchase separately.

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PurePwnage

I did try...I tried booting by the D: w/ the Windows copy in the CD Drive. Still didn't boot from the D:

PurePwnage

Any ideas guys?

imsati

When the system is POSTing, there is an option to enter BIOS. Press the designated key (usually F2, F8, or DEL) and see if BIOS recognizes your Optical drive. If it does, prioritize it as your first Boot Device and insert your Win98 CD. Save the changes in BIOS and reboot. The CD should load by default and begin the install.

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voyagerfan99

You may need the windows 98 startup disk. You inset that and boot to that. You then "enable CD-ROM Support" and when it gets to A:\> you type "D:\" (no quotes) and then "Install".

If you need the files to make the startup disk, let me know. I have a spare sitting around. Just PM me.

PurePwnage

I've tried this.

Voyager, I'll attempt this.

I'm getting an error saying Invalid Drive Specification. I have Windows 98 on the CD. I try to get the D drive to be the one I use, but it just skips by that and says Missing Operating System no matter what I try to type in. If there's a floppy in, it goes to that.

I type this in (except the A:\> part)

A:\>D:\Install and it says Invalid Drive Specification. Any other way to get from the A drive to boot the D drive?

voyagerfan99

Did you start the computer with a windows 98 startup disk in drive A? You MUST use that so you can enable CD-ROM support to install the CD, otherwise there is no driver for the CD-ROM and the computer won't detect it. Trust me. I've installed 98 HUNDREDS of times.

I just read you don't have a floppy drive. If you don't, try and find another computer that does. First, download the files (seen below) and copy them to a flash drive. Then go to like the library or somewhere that has a floppy and make it.

I have the files hosted Here in a .EXE that will ask you where you want to extract the files to. Just extract them and copy to a blank 3 1/4" Floppy.

PurePwnage

That's what I'm going to have to do. Alright, Thanks!

PS: Now just to find someone w/ a floppy drive. I tried booting up a really old slow computer in the basement, but it just crashes when it gets to the desktop screen.