win98 setup question

[eshort]

my friend accidently formatted his computer so now only a blnak hdd exists.

he has the win95/win98se cdroms but is unable to access the cdrom drive.

i am on vacation to his location and do not have aq win9x setup fdd.

is there anywaqy he can load the win9xs frm the cd roms?--without a setuip boot fdd?

my laptop does not haver an fdd so i cant go to bootdisk.com to make up a bootdisc :(

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[G Ray88]

Have your friend get into the BIOS of their computer and see if the CD-ROM is in the boot order, if it is have set to Floppy or CD first or second, third HD. It might be set now to HD first if it is, it won't do anything until they change the boot order. Good Luck:)
The Win98se CD is bootable and should work, Win95 will need a boot disk.

[eshort]

i checked the setup boot order--cdrom is first..for some reason the cdrom is not booting...will continue to play around but am unsure as to why the win98 cdrom woint boot even when setup bios set to cdrom as first in booting order.

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[bubbalou32]

I ran into the same problem with a friend's old HP with the inability to boot from CD after setting it as first boot in the bios. Same problem with no floppies. I ended up doing a reinstall of Win2000 (it still had a working OS on it).

I thought later, would disconnecting the HD force the CD boot? See if that works for you.

[computer_kid1]

cant a friend of theirs maybe create a boot disc and give it to them?

[Rocketmech]

Answers here:
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=179813