I am a novice computer DOS user who has always had a WIN O.S. to use. I reciently had to format my hard drive with the help of a friend, but now I cant get my computer to recognize my cd/dvdrom, which runs off the USB port. My friend and I found a generic DOS based cdrom driver prog, but I cant get the computer to recognize the USB port. I need help please.

Windows 98 does not need a DOS USB driver, it needs a Windows 98 USB driver. This should be posted in the Windows 9x Forum. Your DVD drive came with the USB driver for Win98 on a CD. Best

Reread your post. Are you saying that you cannot install Win98 ? Ok you need to set up the usb driver on the boot floppy. What driver are you trying to set up ? Like for DUSE config.sys would be : device=a:\himem.sys devicehigh=a:\emm386.exe dos=high,umb and those drivers (himem.sys and emm386.exe) would need to be on the floppy. Then autoexec.bat would be : duseldr a:\duse.exe MSCDEX /D:USBCDROM /S /M:15 /V and duseldr.exe, duse.exe and mscdex.exe would need to be on the floppy. Best

There are a bunch of USB DOS drivers. You need to do a web search. The drivers which work for me are: device = \util\aoatapi.sys /D:oemcd001 devicehigh = \util\USBASPI1.SYS /v devicehigh = \util\DI1000DD.SYS HTH M2

NTFS Reader for DOS comes as FREEWARE, and includes the latest versions of the elusive USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS files. Go to: http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm and download the "Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for NTFS Reader" and/or the "Bootable CD ISO Image for NTFS Reader". While NTFS Reader for DOS itself will not read FAT32 disks; the boot disk has an option to load the drivers necessary to allow you to read HDs, CD-ROMs and (some) Flash Drives attached to the USB port. The boot disk also has a few other nice tools included.