ABit VH6 - Unable to boot from Win98CD

using an Abit VH6 mobo, i set the bios up to boot from the cdrom first, but it will never boot off my win98 cd, i have to format my drive and reinstall win2k and winme but i can't get to a DOS prompt to do it.

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using an Abit VH6 mobo, i set the bios up to boot from the cdrom first, but it will never boot off my win98 cd, i have to format my drive and reinstall win2k and winme but i can't get to a DOS prompt to do it. Please help.

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Why do you need ot boot from the win98 CD to install Win2K and WinME?
 
Do you just need a boot-disk? www.BootDisk.com
 
Will it boot from the Win2K or WinME CDs?
 
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i don't NEED to boot off my win98cd but that's how i usually boot the computer to format and install win2k and winme, my BIOS doesn't seem to see either of my dvd or cdrw drive. i made a cdrom setup boot disk on my little win98 box but it wouldn't boot it, it just said that NTLDR was missing, press any key.
 
[This message has been edited by EddiE314 (edited 11 December 2000).]

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Push Pause at bios screen you allow for time for the cd to acc the cd disk you know that bink bink bink.