Take a look at www.bootdisk.com and get a boot disk which will have "PCMCIA cd rom driver". Basically you need to "tell " the pc that you have a cd rom , to be able to install windows. That can be accomplished by installing a DOS driver.
If you don't find one, then next thing will be to do a search on dell site, and look for a DOS driver for the cd rom ( might wanna look at the www.driversguide.com ). Once you got the drive, make a folder on the hdd and dump that drivers in it.
Then modify the config.sys and autoexec.bat file to "load and enable" the pcmcia cd rom driver. Once you do that , you'll be able to access the cd-rom from the command prompt , i.e. at the c:\> prompt type e: ( or whatever the letter DOS assigns to the cd rom drive) and then type setup to start the install of windows ( from the cd-rom drive of course.
HTH
If you don't find one, then next thing will be to do a search on dell site, and look for a DOS driver for the cd rom ( might wanna look at the www.driversguide.com ). Once you got the drive, make a folder on the hdd and dump that drivers in it.
Then modify the config.sys and autoexec.bat file to "load and enable" the pcmcia cd rom driver. Once you do that , you'll be able to access the cd-rom from the command prompt , i.e. at the c:\> prompt type e: ( or whatever the letter DOS assigns to the cd rom drive) and then type setup to start the install of windows ( from the cd-rom drive of course.
HTH
