So, here's the background:  I have an old dell laptop that previously had win98 installed on it.  I got the crazy idea to try and install madriva free linux on it - well, the laptop's a bit too out of date to successfully run this os (for various reasons), but managed to install the lilo madriva boot menu.  Now I'd just be happy to GET win98 BACK on it.   I tried running the win98 recovery cd - it seemed to work (deleted old partions, installed new ones, etc), but when I try and boot the laptop back up, I still get the linux lilo boot menu, which gives me 2 linux options and 2 windows options.  Neither windows option will boot ("Error: 0x06").  I know I can remove lilo via msdos, but w/o windows I'm not sure how to do this (or if this is even a solution).  So what do I need to do to get win98 back on via the 'recovery' cd?

additional info:  When I remove the hard drive, put it in a usb external drive, and hook it up to my new laptop, there appears to only be a fat32 partion (no linux partition).  I've tried deleting all partitions myself and re-running the recovery cd, but no luck.  One strange bit:  if I try to boot the old laptop's hd via external usb hooked up to the new laptop, one windows boot option now runs some kind of dell diagnostic program, and if I choose the other windows boot option, it actually boots the winXP that is installed on my new laptop's internal hd (same for if I choose linux - it runs my linux that's installed on my duel boot new laptop).

ANY suggestions/insights appreciated   THANKS!

-Jeannette    you need to remove the boot loader for linuxIf you can get it to boot from the Windows CD, then get to the prompt and type in

fdisk /mbr      (note the space) and press Enter

You're fixed.i had to do that with grub error 22 a COUPLE nights AGO

recovery console

fix mbr and then fixbootThat's XP, this is Win98. It's a different animal.i know thats why i didnt tell them to do thatThanks so much guys - I didn't acutally have the win98 cd, just this "dell operating system recovery" cd - of course win98 was lurking in it.  When the automatic promt for the recovery came up I just clicked decline and voila! it defaulted me to a dos promt and I was able to run fdisk. 
Thanks again!   Glad you are all fixed up and thanks for posting back with your success.