how can i install my Win 98, Problem is my CD rom drive does not wok?

Question

Hi
Could some one please tell me how I could install my Win 98 Cd on my
Laptop, The Problem is my CD rom drive does not wok. The floppy dive is fine.
If I copy the win cd on to my usb pen drive ( using a friends pc ) then copy this
On to my laptop desktop and try to install it this way well it work?
Please enplane in detail as I am not that good with pc.

Answer 1

When Win98 was the flavour of the month, it was normal practice to copy the Win98 CD or the 8 floppies unto the hard drive to make it easier to re-install.
You could even re-install / recover Win98 from this folder by running setup.
If you can copy the Win CD to your usb pen drive, there is no reason why, (as long as you have the code) you can't copy the files to your HDD, run setup, and you are ready to go.
You may even be able to do it straight for the pen drive, although having the files in a folder on your HDD allows you to re-install the system if you need to.

Answer 2

If your CD-ROM definitely doesn't work then you've got serious problems and will need to get this fixed before you install Windows 98.
If it does work then it might be that the CD-ROM isn't being looked while the computer is starting up and so not recognising the disc inside it.
If this is the case then it should be a simple matter of changing the boot priority of your machine. When you turn the computer on it will come up with a message saying "Press x to enter setup" where x could be Delete, F1 or Enter.
MAKE NOTE OF ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE AFTER THIS POINT
This should take you into the BIOS where you can use the arrow keys to move around the menus. There's normally a section called Boot and within this you can change the priorities of items. Normally it's ordered either floppy or hard disk first, then CD-ROM. You'd need to change it to be CD-ROM first, save the changes and restart your computer with the Windows disk in.
Once installed, go back into BIOS and change the Boot Order back to Hard-drive first to ensure a quick startup time.

Answer 3

I don't believe that will work, The Hard drive is formatted during the install. Secondly, I'd say that even with coping the files to a flash drive as you have mentioned, I don't think the install will work. I feel personally your best bet is to buy another cd-rom drive!

Answer 4

Hi. The format of a CD and how it is read will be different from the flash drive. You can try it, but the best solution is to get a new CD-ROM for the laptop. (Or a newer laptop, they are pretty cheap when used.)

Answer 5

In order to install Windows, your PC has to be able to boot from the device which has the install files. If your computer is so old that it is only running WIndows 98, then it is probably too old to be able to boot from a USB device. So you would not be able to install the files from a USB drive.

Replace the CD drive.

Answer 6

Yes it is possible, but it will be nightmere?! If you have network card try moving install files via network. Use 98 boot to format your HDD Bring up Network Copy files Run setup If you do this by floppies you need to transfer all install files and run last step

Answer 7

The only way is to get a new cd rom, or put the hard drive into another commputer and load it on there.

Answer 8

If u can save the OS on your Laptop hard disk.. u can do it using MS Dos application... I have done this many times... If u have another disk partition u must save in it because all data on drive C will be lost if u try to format ur laptop.. this will work if u know how to use MS Dos....

Answer 9

You need to buy a new CD rom drive.

Answer 10

Unless you can boot to the USB drive, you will need to replace the CDROM drive.