Sony vaio PCG-Z505R with a PCGA-51CD, but the same issue!

Hi,
I just read your thread about the trouble you had with your sony vaio.

I reciently purchased a PCG-Z505R, with the USB floppy drive and the pcga-cd51 pcmcia cd drive.

My problem sounds like what you encountered. The HD is formatted, but has no OS.

I have never done anything like you described,
could you please walk me through the proceedure?

I am guessing that I should make a windows 98 start disk, add the downloaded files, and edit the bat file...