Thread: ibm boot disc

My IBM 600e had a minor fire at the power connection at the rear of the laptop.I have taken two laptops and built one. The computer will not "see" the original hard drive, I assume it was taken out at the minor fire.I have put in a 2gig hard drive.The computer opens in DOS and goes to C:\>.How do I reinstal my Win 98 onto this computer.I have the disc.It would appear from all the reading I have done that I need to put in the boot98 floppy disc.However my 600e does not have a floppy drive.
Can anyone of you really bright people help me out?Dont get too technical.
Thankyou

Thankyou for your quick reply.
I had already found that page but I still get the same result it does not go to the cdrom even though the BIOS is set to go to cdrom.
Roger

ok, do you have access to another pc with cd writer and fdd?
you could download a windows 98 boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com create a bootable fdd, then use the contents of that fdd to create a bootable cd.

You can then use the cd to boot off and load the cd drivers, swap disks and run setup from your win98 cd..

Again thankyou for your reply
Yes I have cd writer on this computer but sorry, what is a fdd?
Roger

Hi,
FDD=floppy disk drive, which you dont have, maybe you have access to another pc that does

Yes I have downloaded a boot disc made a floppy put the contents of it on to a cd,even copied the contents of it to a MS and plugged that into the USB port.All to no avail
Roger

Originally Posted by regoroger

Yes I have downloaded a boot disc made a floppy put the contents of it on to a cd,even copied the contents of it to a MS and plugged that into the USB port.All to no avail
Roger

If you just copied the contents off the fdd to cd then that wont work, you have to make the cd bootable.

What software do you use to create cd's, there is normally an option to "make bootable cd", let me know what you use and i will give you a guide to create a bootable cd

The cd maker on this computer is NTI CD&DVD maker version 7.7.0.0908.
When I search in the program for "boot disc "nothing is found.
Roger

I dont know that software, i use nero myself.

I think the boot feature for NTI is a "check box" located between the upper two panels and the large one on the bottom when in data CD mode.