History: Bought laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2800-S201, and it had WIN ME preinstalled. I can't get my communications software to work with ME and rather than upgrade that software I thought I would just go with WIN 98.
I formatted the HD and went to Toshiba website and downloaded new bios update. I pulled the dvd driver from the restore cd that came with the laptop.

Problem: Even after installing the drivers I cannot get the laptop to recognize drive d: , consequently I cannot load windows 98 and get on with the communications issue.

What now?

Have you tried just booting with a 98 boot disk? It should ask you if you want to start with or without cdrom support, select with and you should be fine...a 98 or ME boot floppy should be able to make any cdrom work at least as a cdrom...you can worry about the dvd later...

Also, if you flashed the bios, make sure it didn't mess up the settings...like disable the cdrom...and just out of curiosity, how did you load the drivers if it doesn't recognize the drive?