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Cant run CD-Rom Drive in Dos
Name: GM Date: September 7, 2001 at 14:17:14 Pacific
Comment:
In the 95 machine I got it has a Creative Quat Speed CD-Rom Drive which connects through the sound card, I believe, using MATs---A CD-ROM CR-581 Drivers acrording to Windows 95 Plus. I want to be able to run the cd-rom drive from Dos, so I can therefore fdisk and format the Hard Drive, and reinstall Windows from scratch so it can be mine. If I am in Windows 95, and go into Dos Prompt, I am able to see the CD-Rom Drive. Am I aloud to format and fdisk windows their and then install the OS? Any help to get the CD-Rom to work in Dos is appreciated.
Name: Preston Date: September 7, 2001 at 18:33:02 Pacific
Reply:
Just use a Windows 98 boot disk. It should locate and load the drivers for nearly all CD-ROMS out there and it will load everything you need to install windows.
After you boot using the boot disk, don't start Windows setup. Go into DOS, fdisk, format, etc., reboot, and then install whatever version of Windows you want. Using a Win98boot disk is OK for installing Win95 except possibly for Win95 version A which does not support FAT32 disk partitions.
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