startup

Hi,

I suspect that drive E is your CD drive.
If so what has happened is that CD ROM drivers were not loaded a bootup.
Try your W98 startup disk again and select the option to use CD ROM.
If there is no CD option you will have to find CD ROM drivers from somewhere and load these.

Its always handy to have a networked machine with a burner handy when a "clean build" is underway. Too often, I've pulled what I thought were the necessary driver files to reconnect (ethernet/wireless nic/video) only to find out that the manufacturer's hardware profile wasn't accurate.

Have you got the 98 CD in the Drive? If so remove the CD and clean it as there is something preventing the CD from being read. The drivers are being installed as you are being told that the Drive E: is there but the necessary files are not.

This mainly happens because there is no CD in the Drive but you should also have below that message the A: prompt so if you type in E: then press enter that will switch you the the E Drive which should be the CD ROM and then type in DIR/W which will give you a list of contents of the CD in the drive. This will tell you if the CD is readable as it may have been damaged or the Drive could have died or there could be the wrong Boot Floppy being used which is looking for some different files.

If you get a listing of Files just type in SETUP and press enter this should start the install process if the CD is readable.

Col