I had an old Packard Bell given to me. That had win3.1 After making a bootup disk for 3.1 (just in case) and then proceeded to fdisk. Now I cannot get the Cdrom to work. I have tried to use the 3.1 boot disk and found a driver from two different websites. I can get the win95 boot disk to load but I still have no Cdrom. I know a little about win95 and 98, But very little about Dos. I have opened several post here, but I have not found anything that could help me. Thanks to ALL Ohdah

get the right driver for the CDRom run edit, load config.sys [common] DEVICE=C:\CDROM\AOATAPI.SYS /D:IDECD000 /Q make sure its looking for the right file (your CDRom dirver) -- check that you'v got a copy of Mscdex.exe in boot set up topz

autoexec.bat c:\MSCDEX.exe /D:IDECD000

What I am asking is there a way I can get win3.1 back and hopefully the Cdrom? If not then: Is there any way I can load win95 or win98 from a cd with another PC? How do I find out what Dos system I have? Thanks Ohdah

Questions for reply from Topz get the right driver for the CDRom: I have the right driver run edit, C:\>edit Is this correct? Then how do I load config.sys (I don’t know many Dos commmands; could you be more specific) ? [common] ? I don’t understand the common in the brackets? ??? DEVICE=C:\CDROM\AOATAPI.SYS /D:IDECD000 /Q ??? (am not sure what you mean for me to do) make sure its looking for the right file (your CDRom dirver) how? ck that you'v got a copy of Mscdex.exe in boot set up autoexec.bat (Mscdex file is there but not autoexec file) How do I get it there? I have another PC but it has win98 will that work? c:\MSCDEX.exe /D:IDECD000 do I do this after I fix the boot disk? Thank you, Topz Ohdah

At DOS c:\> prompt type edit {filename}, so type edit config.sys or edit autoexec.bat. If the latter doesn't exist, edit will create it when you save the file.

in edit use the keys 8-O TAB Alt+menu letter curser keys