Cannot installation W2K on Portege 3480CT

On eBay I bought a Portege 3480CT to use it as a fine machine to create texts out of office. But now I can not even install W2K on it.
It has an external CD reader and does not install: w2k, Linux, W98 (all original)... for my preferred W2K it says, "couldn't find NTLDR" (w2k) and: "datentraeger entfernen - neustart: taste druecken" -
there is no other boot device, no other disk in any slot... the disk is my original one, the boot device is switched to "boot from CD" - the system is used to W2K (it has a sticker at the back, which gives me this information) -
and now I am at the point, I have no clue, how to continue.
Is there any possibility to make it run again?
Thanks in advance

Hi
If a message "NTLDR is missing" appears this indicates that the disc is not bootable.
Many times this error is caused when the computer is attempting to boot from a non-bootable floppy disk or CD-ROM.
In this forum several users wanted to install the W2K on this notebook.
Firstly you need a bootable drive.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=7187&messageID=24896
If you want to boot from the Win98 CD you need firstly to create a companion diskette. Check the Toshiba driver page for companion diskette files.
Please check also this site. Maybe it helps:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

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