I had an old laptop with Windows 3.1 in it. Now I would like to upgrade to Windows 98. But this laptop has no cd drive and I am unable to find an external CD drive for it. How would I do it?

Umm, good question. Might be easiest to try to find a USB CD Drive if you laptop has a USB port...if not, find someone who has an old parallel CDRW drive. If you're on a network and can share a Win98 directory from the CD, check out www.bootdisk.com and download one of the network boot disks. You can install it over the network, it might be slow but it will work. Sorry I couldn't be more help TJ

BACKPACK made Parallel Port CD drives try EBAY, the other alternative is to take out hard drive and buy a connector to put in PC and copy contents of W98 CD to a folder on hard drive.

PLEASE do NOT EVER tell us what make, model of laptop you have. This would enable someone to determine what, if any, help you can use--such as Is the laptop even CAPABLE of running Whambows98, or for that matter, Whimpox95? Other than suggestions above If the thing has pcmcia slot(s) you might find an (older) cdrom that will operate from a "dos" bootdisk. You could use that to copy the setup files. Find, buy, build, a "null modem" cable, either for the serial port (you didn't tell us IF it has one) or the parallel port and use a linking program like laplink3 (search for and download the file "ll3.exe" or you can use (find) "xtlink.com" or any of a number of these programs. These will allow you to copy the whamox setup files from a CD on another machine through the cable onto the hard drive of the laptop (IF the hard drive is large enough) STILL YET another thing to do is BUY a cable adaptor that will allow you to remove the laptop hard drive, plug it into an extra IDE connection on your desktop, and copy the files right over to the hard drive. I'm sure there's others WHAT MAKE and MODEL of laptop do you have??????

Laplink3 Laplink 4 HTH Dave