Hi everybody, We have an (very) old Penthium I machine where Win 95 has been giving trouble lately, (blue screens every two minutes). So we wanted to install Win 98 from a cdrom, but we ran into lots of problems. After trying for hours to install, we (unwisely?) reformatted the C drive to get rid of the whole buggy mess. Now the machine only lets us reboot with a 3.5 inch system diskette. How can we tell the system to install from the cdrom directly? (It cannot find the cdrom drive, it only seems to see C and A). Extra info, we do have a 3.5 inch Win 95 system diskette which we *think* belongs to this machine. When booting with this one we do (eventually, after reloading default BIOS values from the SETUP pages) get a DOS prompt, but we donīt get any further than that. Unfortunately I only speak Unix and no Dos :-( Could you please help? Thanks a lot, Rob

Use a Windows '98 boot disk. You can get one from www.bootdisk.com

If your machine is old, I'll assume your cd-rom drive is old. If this is the case, even the win98 boot disk won't pick-up your cd-rom drive. I've run into this a few time and I used a newer cd-rom drive to load the operating system and the re-installed the old drive when the operating system was up and running. Good luck

You need to find what kind of CD-ROM you have. Maker & Model, etc. Just open up the computer & look. Got to their web site & get the driver for it. If you have to, go to the library & use their computers, to go on line. On your boot disk you need to modify your Autoexec.bat & Config.sys file. To look something like this. Autoexec.bat file: LH A:\MSCDEX.exe /D:mscd001 Make sure MSCDEX.exe is on you boot disk. Which is the A: drive. Config.sys file: Will look something like below. [NEC_IDE] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001 [TOSH_IDE] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=TAISATAP.SYS /D:MSCD001 [HIT_DVD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=HIT-DVD.SYS /D:MSCD001 [ADAPTEC] device=himem.sys /testmem:off rem device=ASPIDISK.SYS device=ASPI8DOS.SYS device=ASPICD.SYS /D:MSCD001 The device that the above refers to is you CD-ROM. Just substitute you CD-ROM driver for one of the above: CR_ATAPI.SYS, or TAISATAP.SYS. I had to substitute CR_ATAPI.SYS for the original CD-ROM driver. Make sure the CD-ROM driver is on you boot disk. A good book on DOS 6.2, by Robert M. Thomas ISBN:0-7821-1445-8. It's about $10.00

When installing windows from bootup disk A drive, sometimes your cd drive will change to E. E:\Setup see what happens do this at the A prompt.

Have you tried CDROMGOD? Its a utility that has just about every CD-ROM driver in history in it. Simply put it on a floppy - boot up and then go through the menus. You'll eventually get the drivers for your cd-rom. Try www.download.com to get it.

go into Bios = first boot from CD