downgrade to win98 (WME)

[jason mackwood]

Hi, i recently purchased a omnibook 800ct which is loaded with windows 2000. the book is only 166mhz and i would like to down grade it to Win 98. one problem is i can't get the cd rom that i purchased to run with it. it keeps telling me that the drive is not ready or plugged in. i would like to restore win 2000 or load a fresh copy of win 98 but i only have a working floppy drive in place. i just want this thing to run normal. can anybody suggest what to do with it. by the way, i have a good working desktop if that will help me any with fixing this thing.. thanks so much jason

[BertImmenschuh]

The issue with trying to install Win98 on a Win2000 computer is that the hard drive is probably formatted as NTFS which Win98 can't 'see'/work with. You'd first have to boot to a Win98 floppy and run fdisk to delete the NTFS/Non-DOS partition and then recreate the partition and when formatted becomes FAT32.

What is the CD-ROM drive, an internal or an external, maybe USB?

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[jason mackwood]

well i went to my local computer store and they put an internal rom drive in a white box and i plugged the white box into the printer port of the laptop. it is a compaq 8x cd rom. the computer prompted me to install a cd once but never did again. is there a way i can restore the windows 2000 on the laptop to its original condition? as you can tell i am not computer smart.. thanks for the reply

[BertImmenschuh]

I have a CD-ROM in a Parallel-Port case and it requires DOS drivers loaded before Windows can recognize it, mine are on a floppy disk.

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[jason mackwood]

ya i was given drivers but i think they are only for pre windows 2000. would you happen to have the correct drivers or know where i could get them. do you think this is the problem??

[BertImmenschuh]

They come with the portable case or from the manufacturer of it. Haven't found any 'generic' drivers that will work.

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[beerman]

hey bert give this link a try saved me in the past....http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/

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