Many older laptops have only one drive bay, which allows either a Floppy Drive or CD Drive which is useful to save space and in everyday use it does not cause any difficulties. Unfortunately you may wish to sell your Laptop or have just bought a Laptop, in either case how do you re-install the Operating System? As a Computer Consultant this for me is a common occurance and have written the following basic guides on how to overcome the issues.
Windows 95 which only support the FAT16 File System.Windows 95 which also supports the FAT32 File System.
Windows 98/98SE/ME
Windows NT4 all versions
Windows 2000 and XP all versions