Okay, I got an HP from a friend of mine that they had wiped out because they had caught a virus. I am trying to install Windows 98 onto the computer from the CD Rom and I keep getting all these errors. the latest one said that I NEED to create an MS Dos boot partition to set up windows. Any ideas? The only things I have found is that I need to either disable Floppy Boot protection in the EZ Drive;& have no idea how to do this........ Or Disable the LANtastic Server or SuperStore Compression; again no idea........... Would APPRECIATE any advice/help.The easiest way is to enter bios & set your cdrom as the 1st boot device then boot your computer with the win98 disk in the cdrom.
Then follow the onscreen directions.What if I can't even get to the Bios. This is really frustrating and I am sooooooo not an expert.Hello Annie - sounds like you are in a real tizzwazz.

Because you don't seem to be at the knowledge level to go poking around in Bios I suggest you follow the ideas below. I assume from your post that you have both a floppy drive and a cd drive and that both are in working order. Bios is hopefully set to boot first from the floppy.

1. On a working pc goto http://www.bootdisk.com/ and download to the hard disk the bootdisk Windows 98se Custom no RAMDRIVE. The file you download should be named Boot98sc.exe.

2. Put a clean formatted floppy disk in drive A: (should be the floppy drive) on the working pc. Find Boot98sc.exe on the hard drive and click on it. This will create a Win 98 bootdisk on the floppy disk in A:. When creation is complete remove the floppy disk, write protect it, put it into your HP floppy drive and boot the pc. The pc will be booted into Dos and a cdrom driver named BANANA & with a drive letter of R: will be loaded (yes - drive R: - not D: or E: or F: etc.)

3. At the A: prompt put your Win 98 cd into the drive, type R:\setup and if all is WELL you should be able to follow the on-screen prompts to load Win.98

Note that during installation you may need another floppy disk to create a Startup-Disk.

If you keep getting the message you posted about missing MS-Dos boot partition you may have to use Fdisk then Format to create the partition. Heaps of info about these two are available on the WWW.

Good luck - come back if you need a bit more help.