Here is my problem: My girlfriend bought a Pentium (133 or 233, not sure) computer from a company that was liquidating their entire office in our hometown. It has 24 MB of RAM. At first it recognized the CD ROM drive and we installed Windows. The drive was partitioned, and we tried to remove partitions in the drive with fdisk after that and somehow deleted everything (we deleted the primary DOS partition and formated the C: drive)!! We booted it with a startup disk (windows is GONE) and it works...but we cant install Windoze 95 because all we have is the CD and the machine doesnt recognize the CD ROM drive at all. In dos we can type A: and it finds the floppy, C: and it finds the HD, but D: (the CD ROM) and every other letter we tried (in case it somehow changed the CD ROM drive letter) says there is no such drive. I think it might be a driver problem. Any suggestions? We have another computer so I tried using the Windows 95 CD ROM boot disk and it didn't work, appaarently because its not the right brand or speed of CD ROM drive as the other computer. All I know is that the machine in question has an 8X CD ROM. Please help if you can. Thanks

You need your CD-ROM drivers on your bootdisk. Go to http://www.bootdisk.com click on: Windows95a And Windows95b Bootdisks By Kramer It should lead you through the procedure. Doug

Hey, this happens a lot - don't feel bad. What you've got to do is make sure that you're system BIOS recognizes your drive as being there. When you boot up, make sure you see something that identifies the drive e.g. "Found CD-ROM" or "CD ROM mode 3 / 4" Then, get some generic DOS cd-rom drivers and MSCDEX.exe off the web, put them on a disk, and load them into your autoexec.bat. (You don't have to, but it saves the trouble of reloading them when you reboot. Then , insert Win CD, go to drive letter, and run setup.

We used a DOS CD ROM driver and FINALLY got it to work! Thanks.