I have just built a new PC and am attempting to load Windows 98 onto the machine which I have bought seperately. On inserting the Win98 CD software, I was expecting the machine to have booted up with this. I am asked if I want to boot from the CD. I hit enter and the CD Rom drive whirs into life but nothing happens and after a minute or two I get the response of DISK BOOT FAILURE - INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. I have no 1.44 Mb floppy on the machine as I have a Startup disk, but cannot use it. I thought that I would be able to boot up the PC from Windows 98 software, but it does not appear to work. Can you thinks of something that I should have done? Many thanks Dave Williams

I've had similar problems. One thing to try is, open the bios, and change the boot sequence to the cd-rom. If this works around the problem, after everything is installed, go back to the bios and change the boot sequence back to hard drive on start up. Hopefully you bought a full version of win 98, not an upgrade version.

I think your cd may have scratch.. Try your cd with other computer and see if it even goes thru that process, if it does, quit out of it. If it doesn't your cd is cooked... Get another one..

Hi ! I'm not sure wether the Win98 is bootable (mine isn't), but maybe this is the best way to setup your machine to Win98 : 1 - Bootup using a disk, wich includes the DOS driver for your CD-Rom drive, and the mscdex program. 2 - Copy the contents of the X:\win98 folder to c:\win98. (replace X with your CD-Rom drive number) 3 - Run the setup.exe from the local drive. This will for sure let you setup Win98 in no-time. I have used this procedure most of the times, since after the second reboot, Win98 required setup files from the CD, wich wasn't 'seen' by the windows setup for some dark reason. Good luck, and keep us informed. Regards, RoB

Put an old floppy drive in it, and boot with the win98 boot disk, and choose start computer with CD-ROM support, then try installing it.

The win98 CD is not bootable. Go with the suggestions in either response #2 or response #3.

my win98se cdrom is bootable. it is a full os that i bought off the shelf, not an upgrade. i used it to boot up a machine i built without a floppy. it works great.