CRASH! Nothing Happens! Help!

[Senior.... "It's All Foreign To Me"]

A friend of mine has an IBM ThinkPad w/ Windows 98SE (or so it had W-98SE),
he tried to play tech and now it doesn't boot up. He thinks he needs to
re-install his boot disk? Well, his CDRom drive isn't working either. Any
suggestions?
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/s/ Trying to asisst a stubborn friend

[Jeff Richards]

What happens when he tries to boot? Is there an error message? How far does
it get into the boot process? What has he tried so far (eg, booting with a
floppy) and what happened?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
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[PattyL]

This might help

How to Access Your CD-ROM Drive When Windows Hangs at Startup
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=182090

If your friend doesn't have anything important on the drive or has his data
backed up, then you might try running the IBM restore CD. This CD is
bootable and generally, restore CDs wipe out all information on the hard
drive and set the computer up as it was received when purchased so all
programs need to be reinstalled and the data is gone.

Some restore CDs actually let one install over a current installation but
that depends on how the manufacturer (IBM in this case) wrote the restore.

If the system does not boot from the restore disk, then you need to go into
the BIOS or system setup and configure the system to boot first from the CD
drive and then from the hard drive.

I am assuming that this system does not have the capability of having both
the floppy drive and the CD drive installed at the same time. If I am
incorrect about that, you can also create a boot disk using another computer
by running Fat32ebd.exe. This boot disk will recognize most CDROM drives
and allow you to access the CD drive and reinstall Windows if you happen to
be using a retail or OEM copy of Win98SE and not a restore CD.

How to Create a Windows 98 Startup Disk that Supports FAT32
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=187632

PattyL

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