I formatted my harddisc and now I cannot get access to my cd-rom drive. I can boot the system with my win95-undo-disc, but everytime i type "E:" (my harddisc is partitioned) to setup windows 95, the response is "unknown drive". I do have a disc with the samsung cd-rom drive driver on it and i installed it on c:, but it doesn't do any good, either. pleeeeeeze, help me, all you smart computer-knowing people out there! :->

Use the boot/startup disc that came with/you created. (it must be of the same version of Windows - 95, 95B, 95C etc). Find and copy MSCDEX.exe to the floppy Boot from it and at the c:\> type FORMAT C:/s That will format the C drive and copy the system files from the floppy to the hard drive. Copy MSCDEX.exe to the C drive (This file allows Dos to allocate a drive letter to the CD Rom) Still at the C:\> type DIR for a listing of the unhidden files. See if AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS exist. If not type EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT Save the file. Then while still in EDIT Save As CONFIG.SYS. Close Edit and use DIR to check you have created autoexec.bat and config.sys Remove the floppy and reboot If the system hangs or gives error messages, retrace your steps Provided you have no problems, insert the CD Rom driver disk and at C:\> type INSTALL (or whatever your installation command file is). After installation, reboot You'll see what drive letter is allocated to the CD Rom Diversionary material By installing the CD Rom drivers at this point - and NOT using a 98 boot disk - the CD is recognised whenever you boot to DOS. Either by closing and restarting in Dos or by using Win95 Boot Option Menu (BOM)- accessed by F8 Using a 98 boot disk does not install the CD Rom drivers so while it is possible to access the CD in DOS by Closing and restarting in Dos, it is NOT possible when using 98's BOM. Also, be careful when accessing Dos partitions if you use Win95 version of FDISK - there are known problems with drive contents. The solutions are patches or use Dos 6.22 version of FDISK. For further info on this, http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/w95partn.htm

As a matter of fact you can interchange 95B and 98 CD-ROM Boot Disks. I use 98 Boot Disk with CD-ROM Support to install Win95B all the time. You do however need an earler 95/95A Boot Disk only if you a silly and try to use "Large Disk Support" (FAT32) which will not work on 95/95A Drives. Vist www.bootdisk.com for CD-ROM Boot Disk

As a matter of fact you can interchange 95B and 98 CD-ROM Boot Disks. I use 98 Boot Disk with CD-ROM Support to install Win95B all the time. You do however need an earler 95/95A Boot Disk only if you a silly and try to use "Large Disk Support" (FAT32) which will not work on 95/95A Drives. Vist www.bootdisk.com for CD-ROM Boot Disk

Assuming you have a bootable Win95 installation CD, use your BIOS setup to reassign the CD-ROM as the first boot device.

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