System startup

[Fridgeman]

I hope I get the patient people replying to me as you will probably need it before I finish.
I have just retired and my company were in the process of changing computers, they were kind enough to offer me the one
from my desk which I accepted as I planned on putting one in my travel trailer. They said they would remove all company files and then I could take it. Well they did, they removed everything. I have tried starting with my bootup disk from my home computer but no luck. It appears that computer B cannot find the CD drive so I cannot load an operating system. I would like to buy the Windows 98SE for it if I can get it to work. I would appreciate any help I am not an expert so please keep it reasonably simple if possible.
Regards
Fridgeman

[zipulrich]

Hi, welcome to CyberTechHelp!

You can download a nice bootdisk from our download page (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/downloads/download.php/id/8). Start the PC with the disk in drive a:, and opt to start with CDRom support.

[Fridgeman]

Thank you for the fast reply and welcome to your forum. I downloaded the boot disk to my A: drive. tried to start as you suggested "no go" copied the files to "C"drive on down computer found I had two files. COMMAND.COM and UBD98.EXE.
Tried to start the UBD file received the following message, this program cannot run in DOS mode.!!!! Help
Regards

[Fridgeman]

Hi zipulrich,
I am folowing up on this as I cannot get a cdrom to work, two on system. I think the cold weather is getting to me "-22F" this morning. I downloaded the bootdosk you suggested could not get it to work "Invalid media" played around with the bootdisk made from my other win98 computer. Then achieved the following message "this system cannot run in DOS mode. I think that someone in the IT group when they cleaned the files did not like me. It looks as though I need to start from scratch. My experience falls far short of this. will accept any help, even a stick of dynamite to put under the machine.
Frigdeman

[eagle]

Are you able to get into the bios. You say you cannot get the cdrom to work. If you can access the bios, scroll to the bios features setup. Then boot sequence you want A,C in that order. This means that you are using. drive A for the floppy boot up , which will let you access the cdrom. Whatever you try, please be specfic as you can on what you are doing. hope this helps

[Fridgeman]

Good Morning Eagle,
Entered the setup per your instructions, Boot sequence as follows
Removable Devices
Hard Drive
Cdrom
Network Boot.
I assumed the removable device was "A".
With boot disk downloaded from forum site following error:-
Invalid system disk, replace disk and press enter.

System is Gateway 233mg. 394ram. two hard drives, two cdroms

Fridgeman

[AnnMarie]

Hi Fridgeman - forgive me for asking but after you downloaded the UBD bootdisk file, did you run it? What you need to do is to download it to your desktop, have a fresh formatted floppy ready to pop in your A: drive and then doubleclick on the downloaded 98UBD.exe file. After that, just follow the prompts.

[prettyzany]

Just a thought, but I believe they wiped the operating system from the computer, We get computers for a company and refurbish them, that is what they do.