CD-Rom won't read disks at start up

[Melov]

Ok, I have a Compaq, as you know they come with these Quick Restore disks. Which basicly is the operating system and drivers for everything on the Compaq. I installed regular Windows 98 and it sucks ***. On my restore disks I have Windows 98 SE. It would have all the .dll's I need and stuff. Well to use the restore disk you put them in as you first start up your computer. Well when I put them in all I get is a black screen with a blinking underscore. It won't read the CD. And for some reason the Floppy light stays on as if its trying to read it. I know there is nothing wrong with the disks because I used them on my last HD. I think I messed with my HD options or something and now it only wants to read the floppy on start up. Any suggestions to get it to read that disk?

[Sterling_Aug]

Did you create the special Compaq drive partition?

I don't think you will easily get the Compaq restore disks to work if it isn't on the original equipment.

[lastrezort]

You gotta go in your BIOS and check if your BOOT SEQUENCE...

This is what tells you in what sequence the machine will search for a bootable file...

If you want to boot from a floppy before your hard drive, the boot sequence has to be A:,C: etc... If your CD-ROM is D: then put D:,A:,C: which will read the CD-ROM, then the floppy, then the hard drive...

don't forget to put your sequence back the way it was after you're done