I'm just going to add my two cents:
   
  Whenever I reformat my hard drive, I boot off the floppy and enable CD Rom Support.  I insert my OS CD and type setup at the a: prompt.  The system does the rest.  Just follow the instructions.
   
  You can also boot from the floppy, enter the bios, and check that boot sequence begins with CD-Rom.  Insert OS CD and reboot. The system will do the rest.  Just follow the instructions.
   
  

Allen Martell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  The A: prompt signify's that you have booted to the floppy drive, now you 
only need to type format C: and then follow the prompts Good luck

----Original Message Follows----
From: David Gillett 
Reply-To: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List 


To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] hard drive reformat
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:25:43 -0800

On 15 Jan 2007 at 20:52, Chet Baker wrote:

> I recently attemted to reformat my hard drive and install win 98
> following the instuctions on this site. I made the boot floopy disc,
> and followed the directions to the letter. I cannot get it to read
> from the floppy,I set the bios to boot from the floppy first. I just
> get an A; prompt or a C; prompt. Someone I taled to said maybe I
> have to repartition it?? Thanks for your help.

If you can get the machine to boot diretly from the Win98 CD, that's the
easiest approach.
If you can't, the fallback is to boot from a boot floppy *with CD driver
support*, place the Win98 CD in the CD-ROM drive, switch to that drive
letter (try D: first, then C: if that's not right) and run "setup" from that
DOS prompt.

David Gillett

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