The Dell has no floppy, but... Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 6:34 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DNA (551 messages posted) The laptop has no floppy drive (otherwise he could use the standard Win98 Startup floppy Disk), but you can use the files from said disk (or downloaded files from Bootdisk.com to make a bootable CD (a clone of the Startup Disk on a CD) that would do the job (Most CD burning programs have this option), and possibly include the Win98 Setup folder on the same CD.... ---------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement Written in response to: re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (DEX: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 1:23 pm) Responses to this message: re: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DEX: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:14 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 4:38 am) Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 7:36 am) re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:16 am) Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am) Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:26 pm) One argument for Win2K (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:39 pm) re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 1:23 pm) The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 6:34 pm) re: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:14 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum