>Want to format hard drive of laptop that has only one choice at a time:
cd-ROM or floppy drive.  >I have a boot disk and I have win 98 on cd-rom.
Can I load the boot disk in floppy and then
>swap for the cd-rom to load the win os during the formatting procedure?
I'm worried that the
>cd-rom won't be recognized.  I don't have the docking station.  Help!


   Tough situation. If you had a Jaz with Traveler connectors or 250 MB Zip
external parallel you could previously copy the Windows install folder from
CD to an Iomega cartridge and using the guest.exe DOS driver copy the folder
to the clean hard drive and install from there. Or if you had a parallel
CD-ROM drive you could install. Another way would be to buy Partition Magic
and create a partition for the Windows install files and format the other
partition. Maybe someone else has a better solution.

Later,


Russell Smith
Edtech Consultant, Journalist
A+ Certified Technician
http://www.rustysmith.com

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