Want to install Windows 98se OS

A startup disk and boot disk are the same thing.

A drive that is one whole drive, has 1 single parbreastion that takes up 100% of the drive. Technically speaking, you don't format a drive, you format a parbreastion. I am told that all hard drives nowadays come ready parbreastioned and formatted.

If you have problems then you know it's not formatted or not formatted properly. You want it formatted as FAT32. So, as ppl have posted. You type

And if it's not parbreastioned, then formatting won't work ('cos you'll have no parbreastion to format). So you'll have to run fdisk and follow the simple options to create a primary parbreastion taking up 100% of the disk. Then format it

If you parbreastion it wrongly then just run fdisk again and delete the parbreastion you created and recreate the parbreastion. There's no risk here, since no important data is on the drive. Feel free to experiment. If you want to learn then you may want to try different things , even 'wrong things' just to see what happens.

To start from the CDROM, there are 2 ways.

* Boot from floppy, then browse to your cd drive

or it might be E: (it depends). Try both. Whichever works. The wrong one will give "bad command or filename"

The other way : * Restart, Hit the key to go into the BIOS. Change the boot sequence so CDROM is first. Save. Quit BIOS. And let it restart. It will boot off the bootable win98 cdrom.

Note: You may have to use format c:s instead of format c: I think it should work without thes though. There's no harm in usings