I'm having a little trouble here trying to boot from my floppy drive. I've formatted my C: drive which had Windows 95 on it. I was trying to install Windows 98, but I needed to format the drive since I wanted a clean install (Windows 98 was not an upgrade). The floppy drive is an attachment to my Toshiba laptop. When I boot up the computer, the floppy drive constantly spins, but nothing happens. I don't see anything on my monitor. I've tried two different floppy drives and neither work. I've tried the Win 98 boot disk in my PC and it worked fine. So, I don't think there's a problem with the boot disk. Any thoughts? Thank you.

First I would check to make sure that the laptop is booting from the floppy drive first instead of the cdrom drive or hard drive. It should work if it is set to boot from floppy. This is in your pc bios, refer to your laptop manual if you don't know how to get into it. Hope that helps. Kevin.

In addition to what Kevin said, how exactly is the floppy attached to the laptop? If it's a bay type device, then Kevin's advice should do the trick, but if it's attached in any other way, then DOS won't see it.

I got it. Thanks to the both of you. Now, I'm just having issues installing Windows 98. Go figure. It hangs when it is doing the final reboot of the system. It says it's updating configuration information or something like that, and it just sits there. No disk spinning, no hard drive activity, nothing. I can only boot in safe mode, which isn't helping me at all. If you have any suggestions, that would be great.

If it were a desktop, I'd tell you to remove all cards except for video, but since it's a laptop, that task becomes a lot more difficult. So let's go in this direction... Is this W98 CD one that came with the laptop, or is it a stand-alone version? You said that you're going from W95 to W98, so I'm assuming that the W95 CD came with the laptop, and the W98 is a stand-alone. It's possible that the system is looking for a particular file or files that would have been loaded with the W95 CD that came with the computer, and you're using a stand-alone copy that hasn't installed those files.