Not Booting Into Dos

[jayjaykay]

I have a toshiba tectra 510cdt laptop, which has been running Win nt4, I have deleted & reformated the hard drive in order to reload win98 se but I can't get it to boot from 98 start up disk in the floppy drive, it won't even give me a dos prompt to work with, just a flashing cursor line in the left corner. If I use a Win 95 boot disk I get a system prompt, but I do not have Cd Support from this prompt, So am unable to go any further. Can anyone give me a step by step to try and get this sorted Cheers.
Jay Jay

 

[jmatt]

You have to get rid of your ntfs partition .

Delpart.exe From NT 3.51, this utility can delete extended NTFS, Lilo, and just about any other type of partition .
DELPART is a DOS based utility that will remove NTFS partitions from hard drives. FDISK is unable to remove some types of NTFS partitions.
DELPART can wipe clean a hard drive, then you can use FDISK to create partitions normally.

http://www.bootdisk.com

http://www.michalferber.com/downloads.asp

http://www.2e.org/files.htm

 

[wolluf]

If 95 boot disk is working and 98 is not, I'd suggest creating a new 98 boot disk (floppy may be damaged or just not compatible with drive). Get one from

http://www.bootdisk.com

if you haven't got access to a win98 machine (otherwise, just go to add/remove programs in control panel).