CDROM drivers a problem when formatting

[KlodaX]

I want to format my Dell Latitude cp... and have been warned by my mate who did the same thing to his laptop that when he went to load windows the drivers for the interchangable CDROM (interchangable with the floppy disk drive) where lost.
At the momment it boots from the floppy drive and if that can't be found the CDROM and then the C drive... I'm going to switch it so it boots straight from the CDROM and not the floppy drive... but even with this am I still going to have a problem the drivers and if so how do I go about this?

[Reid]

I do not know if Dell computers are proprietary in a way that might affect loading the operating system, but generally you just need to get a startup floppy disk that loads CD drivers. A Windows 98 Startup disk is one that does. BootDisk (http://www.bootdisk.com) is one source.

I thought I read somewhere that a Windows CD is bootable, but I was experimenting last night with booting from a CD and found that the Windows 98 CD was not bootable, but the CD I had burned booted up. Maybe later versions of Windows do boot.

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