Hi,I have a thinkpad 760el laptop which ran on w98.I have just reformated it and now i cant load windows.
It only has one DRIVE bay for floppy or cd .The problem i am having is the laptop wont FIND the cd rom so i can load w98.
When i press f1 to get the setup screen all i can see in startup is floppy 1 or hd 1.
There is no sign of a cdrom drive.
Is this DUE to me not being able to load cdrom drivers from the startup floppy?
Any HELP Thanks Pete. You need a DOS - bootdisk with CD-ROM drivers.
The MSCDEX must be loaded.

www.bootdisk.com or barts bootdisk builder has ready Bootdisks.

hope this helps
uliHi, Thanks for reply.I have tried BOOT disks but as i only have one bay for cd or floppy the driver wont load for cd as it cant find cdrom. the startup disk only loads to a ram drive which is lost when i re boot .is there any way to load set up from the ram drive to C drive as once the cdrom drivers are on c i hope i can boot with cd rom.There are some rather exotic workarounds, but it is a whole lot easier to buy a bootable CD made for this purpose. There's a gazillion on eBay. Here is just one listing and a link to look for more:

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http://computers.search-desc.ebay.com/load-Windows_Other-Software_W0QQbsZSearchQQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfgtpZQQfposZQ5AIPQ2fPostalQQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQftsZ2QQlopgZQQsacatZ182QQsadisZ200QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs