Son crashed his T22 IBM Laptop.

Original operating system was W98. He INSTALLED W2000, which never really worked b/c he did not update BIOS.

He has lost all the SYSTEMS product software, and we are having to rebuild. We have a Win98 startup disk. We did a FDISK and FORMAT c: /s The computer will not start - but bypasses - Win98 screen flashes and then the system goes to C: DOS prompt.

We located a partitioned drive on the hard drive it is D:

The operating system is on D: - we have the Win98 CD, but the computer does not recognize the CD/DVD ROM drive. So we can not use the WIN 98 CD.

We need to get the computer to recognize the CD/DVD ROM drive so we can load the WIN 98 CD updates.

Any suggestions?

THANKS - DeeDee Smith - AZ RatterIt does not have to update the BIOS to use Windows 2000...
It's better to look for a boot disk on INTERNET, with cd support.

I did a search on www.google.com with the following string:

win98 boot disk

And I found quickly:

http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml

Be sure that are many more, and one of it will satisfy your needs (will have cd-rom support too).