Reformatting a laptop....

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I hope this is the right place to ask this, so here goes.
My laptop has a ton of spyware and other crap. I want to reformat the hard drive. I do not have the original cd for this laptop, but I do have a copy of OS that i want to install. However, the laptop doesnot have a floppy drive which I need to use the 98 boot disk. The OS cd is not bootable. How do I get around this? thx

 

[eth00]

USB floppy drive is one option and how I got my floppy/cdrom-less laptop OS installed (also used a usb cdrom).

 

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you can create a windows 98 boot cd. if you have nero, you should be able to make one. or just to go http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/.