1) boot off of a 98 boot floppy with cdrom support
2) a:\
3) type fdisk
4) navigate through the menu's and delete every partition
5) create new partitions, one primary dos partition, then an extended partition with logical drives if you want multiple partitions
6) reboot
7) boot off the boot floppy again
8) a:\
9) format c:
10) format d: if you made a second partition
11) run smartdrv
12) change to your cd rom drive, cd i386, and run winnt
that should do it
