FXSGARY, Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum. You will need to have a cdrom boot disk to load the cdrom driver on a floppy disk. Use this disk to boot the system and it will load the cdrom driver. Once it loads you will be able to install Win98 from the cdrom drive. Click below to download a cdrom boot disk for your OS. Boot Disk  
Hi. Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem.    Having a rather hard time trying to load W98. I have a Dell Inspiron 3000 TS30H M266TX.  98 was working fine before this issue. Booted from floppy, fdisk, and formatted. At the end of formatting I got the dreaded cannot find the cd-rom drive MSCD001.  I tried everything I could find in the past two days and nothing helps. I haven't tried the DOS articles. Don't have any knowledge how DOS is used. Is there something in the BIOS that i need to check to make sure my CD and floppy drive are working properly? I have to switch back and forth with the floppy and the CD drive and I'm not even sure if the computer needs to be shut down to change from one to the other, or can they be switched out without rebooting? Anybody know?   Also, the first page in BIOS, it shows the floppy drive disabled. Should it be? If I try to enable it when I hit the down arrow it skips right over it like it's locked out.     Thanks, Gary 
Can't load W98