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re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3488 messages posted)


|Tried that but, just like the original Startup Disk and a few others,
|cant get the CD to work, I keep getting "Insert startup Disk 2"
| john
|
Sounds like you need a bootable floppy
with a DOS device driver for your optical drive. 
cache of http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
++IDE.CDrom.Drivers.Included

The WinME image is actually the better one.

If this doesn't get you going, describe IN DETAIL what you are doing.


:::I found an excellent reply from Sparky to someone with the same problem
:::and did exactly as prescribed
:::
DETAILS are nice.  I don't know of anyone here who is clairvoyant.
A **link** to what you have read is helpful.
(Use the QuickLink button to make it clickable.)




Written in response to:
re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (john: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 2:17 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (john: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (john: Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 2:31 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (J.R.: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 8:25 am)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop (john: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 2:17 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (gewg_: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 4:06 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 on laptop -- Insert startup Disk 2 (john: Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 9:16 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 11:20 am)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 4:00 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Fri, Jan 25, 2008, 4:49 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 4:33 pm)
*re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (gewg_: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 7:25 pm)
-re: Reinstalling Win98 -- "cannot find any of the qualifying products" (john: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 5:59 pm)
-"Installing on machine with NO operating system" (gewg_: Sat, Jan 26, 2008, 7:52 pm)
*re: "Installing on machine with NO operating system" (john: Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 5:39 pm)
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