I have an old IBM Notepad laptop machine. Recently I thought I try my adverse expertise at wiping the machine clean and start again. I managed to wipe via FDISK. Unfortunately, after the prompt to restart with the CD_ROM support, it reads the CD, decides that the space in teh machine is o.k. and then it dies!

I am not partitioning the hard drive and whole of 1024 !!!  100% is allocated to primary drive and none to slave/secondary or extentnion etc.

Question:

Do you know what I am talking about? What do I do next?

I am totally and utterly out of order. Please help me get back in the right direction and reboot the machine so that it will read Windows98SE virsion. - step by step please

Many thanks

You didnt mention if you are booting using the CD-ROM or if you are using a boot floppy disk.

If you are using the CD, try using a boot floppy instead, if you dont have one, there are some available for download at http://www.ez-pc.org/default.asp?midx=109&didx=1