installing windows with CD Rom

[ruth29]

I have no A drive and I have to install windows 98 so therefore I need a CDROm that is bootable. I think I need thecab files that will install the windows 98 .
I have a CD Rom that is supposed to be the recovery disk for the HP computer but isn`t the right one or else computer was rebuilt and now the CD rom won`t work anyway I can get a CD rom to show up but I do not have some files that I need to install windows 98. I am not even sure a bootable CD rom would be picked up by this computer as it is a different CD rom than one that was in there at the beginning/.
Is their anyway I can get the files necessary to install windows 98 or can I copy windows 98 from D drive directly to hard drive. Just something I am working on and am at a loss how to do it.
The A drive connection does not work on this computer. why their isn`t any on it

[RJ]

Well the Windows 98 CD is bootable, so you can boot from it.
But I didn't understand the part with the HP recovery CD. Is your PC the HP ? If not, the CD won't work anyway as the CD will only work with the HP that it was shipped with.
If you have a plain Windows 98 CD then you can boot from it. If the HP recovery CD is for your system then it should be bootable as well.

RJ

[ruth29]

I have a windows 98 CD rom but I cannot boot from it as the CD rom drive will not show up . I do have a an HP computer but it was bought as a refurbished one and any of the CD revcovery disks that they gave me says it is the wrong CD rom and I have had two different ones sent to me.
I can put the the disks in the CD rom a notice comes up and says that it is the wrong model of recovery disks and than it loads the CD Rom drivers and once theyare loaded I putthe 98 CD rom in and put setup and it than says it is the worng command.
So am thinking I need something else to install win 98. so that is what I am looking for.

[RJ]

What do you mean with "CD ROM drive will not show up" ?
Is the boot order in BIOS set to boot from CD-ROM first ? Is the CD-ROM set to AUTO in standard cmos setup ?
Have you tried the other optical drives if the PC has more than 1 ?
You shouldn't need anything else than the Win98 CD to install Win98.

RJ

[sdkfz]

is it not possible that the cd is not recognized until drivers for it are loaded?

Rememebr that this is a hp (?) and the OS is 98 so we are talking about the time frame when a boot cd actaully also had a floppy, the floppy got the system to read the cd and then from there you were fine.

[ruth29]

ok thanks I got it to work so have my windows installed now have to try and get drivers for computer installed tried getting them off of the CD but couldn`t get them loaded so am now putting them on a RwCD hopefully that will work had them on floppy disks which I had downloaded from internet.

[redbaron_snoopy]

Some older CD ROms don't read CDRW media.
Better to burn the drivers on a CDR instead.
If you're putting them on CDs, why do you need to put them on floppy ?

[ruth29]

you misunderstood me I said I had them on floppys from before. Thanks found out that they won`t read RW.