win98 boot help!

[eloric the 2nd]

I need a Win98 boot disc...but the thing is, I don't really have a functioning A drive at the time. Is there a way to use a CD to boot it, and how would I make it? Having the boot disc isn't as important as being able to get to the DOS prompt...if I could just get to that, then I would be able to maybe reinstall it (I have a copy of the Win98 CD on my hard drive, along with a CD of ME). I know that during start up, one of the F keys will take me to a screen for a command prompt, but what happened was, my computer crashed during a re-installation of 98, so that's causing all the problems, and it won't let me get to the screen with those options. Can anyone help? Thanks

 

[DaiShan]

download a bootdisk from bootdisk.com and save it to cd, set the bios to boot from cd first. However, You may be able to do a dirty install on top of the current install from the cab files, if not, if that does not work, you will have to reformat.

 

[dexmanone]

I'm not sure, but if you power up with the Win Cd in the tray, doesn't it ask you if you want to "Boot Off of CD?" I thought it did.

 

[eloric the 2nd]

Well, we tried booting straight from a ME CD, which didn't work. Also, since the A drive is doing all kinds of weird stuff, we burned the start up discs onto a CD, which still didn't work...so, I have no more ideas...