Reinstall windows from a USB CD-Rom

moemac8

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I have a old junk Dell laptop that came with Windows 98 and I need to reinstall windows but the CD-Rom on the laptop is toast. I have a external Iomega USB CD-Rom but I do not have USB support when I boot to a floppy and cant seem to get it to work. Is there anyway to get this drive to work when I boot up off a floppy so I can reinstall Windows.

Thx for any help anyone can give.
 

jackschmittusa

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You will need to find DOS drivers for USB and cd-rom drives and load them from the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on the floppy.
 

nweaver

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Win2K with SP4 slipstreamed in is the first bootable CD with built in USB CDRom support, so that you can install it from a usb CDRom. I don't think you will be able to get dos drivers for your USB CD Rom, but that is a blanket statement (Dos Does not support USB)