first i would like to thank blacksmith for the e-mail...i copyed it onto a floppy disk and tryed to boot from it and couldnt it said non system or disk error....so i boot from a win95 boot disk.1.question how do i find out the device drivers for my cd-rom on dos..ok it wont load no device drivers at all.i go to creative and download the drivers that it says it needs.then i install them and it still wont let me use my cd-rom..i have a creative cd-rom model number CR-563-B.can anybody please help me..im about to put my head through the moniter..thanks for any suggestions

You need a copy of MSCDEX.exe and CPQIDECD.SYS on your C: drive. Look in C:\DOS for them. You then need the following lines added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. AUTOEXEC.BAT LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.exe /S /D:IDECD001 CONFIG.SYS DEVICEHIGH =C:\DOS\CPQIDECD.SYS /D:IDECD001

hey, i also have the same cd-rom drive and same problem.....but i need to get cd working before windows starts as i need to install windows from the cd any help would be much apreciated.

If all you need is to have your system boot to dos with cd-rom support, grab a diskette and then: Format the disk and make it bootable (insert the diskette, open a dos prompt, at the c:\> type format a: /s Next ... open Notepad and type in the following: @echo on a:\mscdex.exe /d:idecd001 /l:d save the file to the a:\ drive as autoexec.bat (note: l:d is the letter L not i or 1) Next create another file using notepad, type in the following: lastdrive=f device=a:\cpqidecd.sys /d:idecd001 save this file to the a:\ drive (to the diskette) as config.sys NOTE: you need to have the following to files on the a:\ diskette for this to work: cpqidecd.sys mscdex.exe (you should be able to find the mscdex.exe on your hard drive, if you don't have the cpqidecd.sys file, search the web for it.) Make sure the diskette is in your A:\ drive, re-boot and once your PC is up the cdrom will be your D:\ drive One last thing: your PC will be in dos mode ... no long file names (8 letter names), DO NOT run any disk repair programs as they might mess up your files with long names. GOOD LUCK