I am currently useing windows 98 and my children want to play games that run in dos mode. When i go to dos and try to get the cd rom to run it says that the file or driver is invalid. If i try running it from windows it tells me that my dos time has expired. Could you please help me.My cd rom drive is drive D.

try typeing c:\windows\dosstart or dosstart in DOS prompt.. it works for me - W98CE

What I would do is check your config.sys and autoexec.bat (both located in your root drive) hopefully your cd rom drivers are not installed and if they arent... then all you need to to is add them and run your game (I just had the same prob not to long ago) anyway... in config.sys look for the line C:\***\cd***.SYS /D:*** /L:D /V /UDMA in autoexec.bat look for the line C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.exe /D:___ /L:D /V /M:10 where the /d: is your driver name. IE /D:003 anyway... if you dont see anything mentioning CD then my guess is you need to install it. hopefully you have a little floppy disk that you were given with your cdrom drive. else you will need to do some massive searching :) anyway I am here to help. good luck and I hope that helped. Im a bit tired so it wont make to much sense unless you in the same state that I am :P СÑGø

The CD-ROm runs when you boot from a startup disk? Well, if it doew, just put the driver in the \windows directory. It is named OAKCDROM.SYS. Then in the config.sys put DEVICE=C:\Windows\Oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001, and put C:\Windows\Command\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 in the autoexec.bat file. Then everything should be fine for DOS. If the CD ROM starts acting sluggish in Windows, you have created a driver conflict and you will have to decide which is more important.