The Cd Drive on My laptop dosent seem to work! The Hard drive is clean and i want win 98 on the laptop. i use the win98 bootdisk and select "with cd rom support" from the option and it loads dos. it find 1 cd drive which is good so far and assigns drive letter e:\ to it. I put the 98 cd in the drive but when i "dir" on drive e: it dosnt read the drive. i get abort retry fail. This happens with any cd. There are no usb's on the laptop i have just bought a external cd rom but if i buy a usb to serial adaptor will the drive be reconised in dos??? i have also got a 2.5" to 3.5" laptop adaptor but the conection on the hd is not the normal type so that dosnt work. oh and theres no nic card! How the hell do i get an os on this laptop

"How the hell do i get an os on this laptop" I just love the good use of English Grammar!! Right ho a recipe Laptop with 1.44 3.5 floppy Intel X86 compatible PC with 1.44 3.5 floppy and IDE/ATAPI CD, DVD,CDRW or Combo Drive Two W98SE boot disks with CD support. Parallel LapLink Cable Peer to Peer file transfer software see list at: http://ww.mwpms.uklinux.net/page6.htm Two floppy disks to install the P2P software on. First on laptop format and SYS C: the hard drive. Second use the P2P software to transfer files over to laptop hard drive Three after transfer remove floppy and reboot laptop and will be at the C:\_ Four type at the C:\_ prompt CD xxxxx [xxxxx=name of folder saved Windows files (101 minimum)] and press enter Five follow instructions on screen.....