Ok so I'm just going to start out by saying I have a vast computer knowledge and even I can't figure this one out. Lets start from the beginning:
I'm using a Compaq Presario 1625 "running" Windows 98, but you will see why this is in dos section.
I have been searching on the internet for at least 6 months now but here is what happened
There was a time when I didn't know crap about computers and I made it impossible to boot the hard drive with a virus, so my dad helped me by booting from the compaq restore disk (which reinstalls windows 98) and poof it was good as new, but now it happened again and not from a virus, it just kind of happened, I booted up my laptop one day and nothing happened
it STAYED on the loading screen, i figured since it was old that it was running slow and left it for a few hours (6 to be exact) only to come back and see IT WAS STILL ON THE LOADING SCREEN.

so I shut down the computer and tried again repeatedly until giving up
I pulled out the good ol' restore disk and this is what happened when I tried to boot from CD-ROM drive. Made some internal beeps while at the same time desplaying about 15 ascii characters each time it beeped and then it stopped, I waited and held the enter key until it started beeping everytime i pushed the enter key, or in other words the computer crashed

now that was the end of it
I didn't know what to do?
now... about 3 years later (or 1 year ago) I formatted a FLOPPY disk with my windows xp and made it a boot disk, and for the heck of it i tried booting my windows 98 with it, too my suprise it worked

uh sort of, it actually booted to dos (not ms-dos, just a generic dos prompt) and when it was done loading it said windows millenium in the command line... so I honestly was baffeled and I have been using it to run dos programs, but I've trying to figure out what to do, I have no way to use the CD-ROM drive in dos i did try mscdex but it can't find the driver, my version doesn't support usb on the back of the laptop and I can't find the files on the internet for the windows 98 floppy disk installation files.

Basically I have two options
1:Someone provides me with (or internet location of) windows 98 installation floppy disk set
or
2:Some other way to fix that I am apearantly oblivious of.

Please help, I REALLY need this laptop to work, and I just don't want to spend 100's of $ to take it into a place like the Geek Squad.

If there is any more information you need please feel free to tell me in the comments and I will edit the post.Here is the maintenance/troubleshooting manual for that system:

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02007377.pdf

I'm not SURE how helpful it will be.

What happens, now, when you attempt to boot to the Hard Disk? If it does what it did before - seemingly stuck on the loading screen - is the HDD activity indicator constantly on?

Can you try safe mode? (press F8 repeatedly while the system is starting up and you should get a Set of options, one of which is Safe Mode)

if safe mode doesn't work, you can try Command Prompt Only (From the menu) From there you can run scandisk and perform a surface scan. (This will take a LOOONG time, so be prepared to wait.)

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uh sort of, it actually booted to dos (not ms-dos, just a generic dos prompt) and when it was done loading it said windows millenium in the command line...

Here is the maintenance/troubleshooting manual for that system:

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02007377.pdf

I'm not sure how helpful it will be.

What happens, now, when you attempt to boot to the Hard Disk? If it does what it did before - seemingly stuck on the loading screen - is the HDD activity indicator constantly on?

Can you try safe mode? (press F8 repeatedly while the system is starting up and you should get a Set of options, one of which is Safe Mode)

if safe mode doesn't work, you can try Command Prompt Only (From the menu) From there you can run scandisk and perform a surface scan. (This will take a LOOONG time, so be prepared to wait.)
That was MS-DOS 8, the version of MS-DOS embedded into Windows ME, and Windows XP and later for some weird reason create a Windows ME Startup disk.

You can make the CD drive accessible from DOS by using the appropriate driver. CH has an article on that here. (Personally, I just use OAKCDROM.SYS).

If the OP has the original product key, he can use a copy of Windows 98 to bring his computer back up.

well when I boot to the hard disk, now it loads ms-dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 since I installed them

scan disk can not complete because some parts of my hard disk surface are so fragmented/broken that it freezes on one of the spots after 30 minutes of trying to fix it.
I don't have the atapi ide cd driver (and there is a chance the cd drive is busted)

These pieces of the puzzle weren't mentioned, nor the fact that the hard drive is about to die a violent death.

I must have written my last reply in invisible ink - sorry about that. I confuse the bottles every now and then and wonder why nobody responds to my comments. Silly old bugga I am.