I have had to format my kids computer once again, only this time when I went to reinstall windows98 my screen shows "Type the command interpreter e.g. C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM" followed by C>

I'm lost in KNOWING what command it is asking for.  

If I hit F8 on start up, it will give me the window options of what I would like to start e.g normal or safe MODE etc., but no matter what I hit the computer tells me it is bypassing my startup files, and then again askes me for the command interpreter.

Can anyone help me?DaShumps......So you have wiped C drive clean by formatting.....and then you ran your Win98 boot disk to install the necessary DRIVERS ...then changed A: to D drive ( thats your cd drive) put in win98 and it wont load .........Do I have that correct?

let us know

dl65  Yes, you had it correct.  I woke up this morning and created a new boot disk (thinking the other was corrupt) and INSTALLATION worked great!!

Thank you, I don't think I would have thought about it had you not laid out what I had done.....put it down to little sleep and trying to fix things when I was to tired to think.

Thank you dl65   DaShumps....Your welcome......It is amazing what a GOOD nights sleep will do particulary when dealing with computers.

dl65