Donna, Made a new STARTUP disk but this one only got as far as, "Loading boot record from Floppy ..OK". got a few "chunking noise" from the floppy drive and then it hangs with the green light constantly on. Will try to download route next.. Robert ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In a message dated 8/22/04 9:11:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DBCfour@xxxxxxx writes: I've gone through multiple bad boot disks before I found one that worked. Find a 98 machine and create a new boot disk, or download one from bootdisk.com and try it w/a different floppy.