[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

hello, i have a laptop that the cd rom seems to not be working. is there anyway to reformat & reinstall without a cd rom? do have a working floppy and usb port. thanks uncleduby

Have you tried using a CD/DVD lens cleaner on your CD drive 1st?.

It may not be working because the lens might be full of dirt. You can get lens cleaners for cheap at any local electronics store. Just pop one of those in and 99% of the time the cd/dvd drive usually starts working again

i got the drive working. i took the drive loose slid it out, used a q tip to push on ribbon cable working good now. thanks for all your help uncleduby

[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

that may just be a windows problem(corrupt install). You should try and boot a bootable cd. If it will boot from a cd, then you should be able to install with it.

i tried rebooting with win 98 se disk in drive, it first initilizes boot from cd-rom then ends up booting to windows

[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

Do you get any error messages? Have you looked in Device Manager to see if their are problems with the CD drive?

the device manager says its working. when i put in a cd it says d:\ is not accessible. i tried a music cd it said file not found check to see if file or path is correct

[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

Your best bet is to buy an adapter so you can hook up the laptop hard drive to the Desktop computer. You could then format and install Win98SE. Only load the Windows generic drivers. Place the hard drive back in then install the modem/Ethernet drivers so you can connect to the Internet and install the laptop's motherboard, video and other necessary drivers. Of course by the time you did this you could probably find a CD drive for the laptop. What make and model is it?

the cd-rom is a lg cd-rom crn-8241b the laptop is a ams tech. i also noticed that when i put in a cd the light for the cdrom lights up and blinks like it is reading the cd

[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

hello, i have a laptop that the cd rom seems to not be working. is there anyway to reformat & reinstall without a cd rom? do have a working floppy and usb port. thanks uncleduby

You need a CD Rom drive to install it, only other bet would be to remove the hard drive, install windows, then transfer it back into the laptop

it is the only laptop i have. can it be done with a desktop pc? if so is there a guide online somewhere to do this? thanks uncleduby

[Reformat Reinstall Win 98 Se]

hello, i have a laptop that the cd rom seems to not be working. is there anyway to reformat & reinstall without a cd rom? do have a working floppy and usb port. thanks uncleduby