I am trying to to install windows 98 from a cd onto a reformatted laptop. I have a floppy startup disk, but can only use one drive at a time as they are interchangeable. When the computer boots with the cd in it says "invalid system disk" It lists cd-rom drive: identified. Am I missing cd-rom drivers?

I had the same problem. except no interchangeable drive. I had to go and re-prioritize the boot sequence. Put the cd-rom drive first. Then insert your 98 cd-rom into the drive. It should read the cd before it looks anywhere else. When it has no OS which is what causes the invalid system disk error message. From here on out I am giving my opinion with no real knowledge to back it up. Without an operating system (OS) the computer thinks that it doesn't have any drives except the hard drive. So when it "see's the cd rom" it says this doesn't belong here hence the error message. The best of luck, and yes my laptop now works.

... download this CDROM.zip (you may encounter download problem using Firefox) ... boot up with a 98 floppy then type: a: sys c: [press ENTER] ... a message should state "system transfered" ... if not copy sys.com to the boot-up floppy and try again. (sys.com is in zip) ... this will make the C: drive bootable. ... then switch over floppy's to one with those (extracted from zip) files copied to it (a blank floppy with just those files on it) (extract the contents of the zip file and copy them to C: drive) ... the command to copy from A: drive to C: drive is: copy *.* C:\*.* [press ENTER] ... this will invoke the CDROM at every boot-up from the hard drive Grrrr "...pentathol makes you sing like a canary" http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/... ... got brain freeze