Anonymous Posted on Mar 16, 2009

Formatting IBM Thinkpad 600E

I've got this old laptop that I've been trying to format and install win98 on for my kids. It won't boot from the cd, despite going into the bios and making the appropriate changes. When I popped in a win2k disc, it wouldn't let me format, even though i asked for a clean install, i now have 2 OS's to choose from, both win2k. I don't have a floppy drive, no original disks, just the cd rom and various different OS's.

Any idea's on how I can do a format and a clean install of win98?

Anonymous Mar 16, 2009

Thanks, that's a great idea. My husband is familiar with Linux, maybe he can give it a shot.
Anonymous Mar 16, 2009

Hey, thanks! I'm in the process of installing the latest version of CentOS and so far it's going great. Thanks for the tip!!

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I know you can't boot from the Windows 98 CD, and probably not from Windows 2000 either. It is possible to turn the the Windows 98 bootable floppy into a bootable CD, but I think you would be much better of trying to install Linux.

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