I erased everything from my comuter due to a virus that was present but when i tryed rebooting my computer with my windows 98 CD it keeps giving me the following statement: Invalid system disk, replace the disk and press any key. I'm not sure what the computer wants me to do and what the next stem i should take is to instal window 98 on my system again. I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you very much.

Most 98FE CD's were not bootable, and only some 98SE CD's were bootable. You most likely need a 98 bootdisk. You can download a Win98SE Boot Disk* from here.


*The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows(9x) machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk to ensure its integrity, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.

Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the bios. http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/23.html

NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools/drivers. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)

The path to the found CDROM will be set with the bootfiles, so entering A:\>f:\setup is the same as entering A:\>setup at the A:\> prompt. There is no need to include the cdrom drive letter. The CDROM device letter will be assigned near the end of the floppy boot process, right after MSCDEX is loaded.