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Formatting an old laptop?

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JDMcelica

Junior Member
I have a compaq presario 1266, its about 5 years old and i haven't booted it up in 3 years. I will replace the ac adapter soon so it should run with no problems but I want to reformat it once I start it up again. Is it possible to reformat the laptop then use a regular win98 install cd to install windows? I know I lost my "format disc" for my presario ages ago and I really want to format my laptop and start clean.

I am worried because the drivers for all the components of the laptop probably wont be on the win98 install cd. does this mean that I have to look around the web and download each driver for each component like the desktop?

how should i go about reformatting my laptop.
 
Depending on your laptop, you might be able to boot from CDRom..otherwise youd have to make a Win98 boot disk (bootdisk.com) and then boot from it, repartition the laptop HDD and format the new drive, then you could boot back to the floppy disk (DOS) and copy the Win98 install files to the HDD and then install from there..

Format C:
MD Win98
X
CD win98
Copy *.* C:\Win98
C
cd win98
setup.exe

(where X is your CDRom drive letter)...I think those steps are correct..I havent used DOS in a lllooonnnggg time though..
 
yes i am clear with the formatting part.

i guess im more worried about installing drivers and softwares since win98 wont have drivers necessary for the laptop.
 
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