Regarding my previous post,(no drives found),W98 or W98SE boot disks did not work either. I went into bios and ran a system check and found these errors with cd rom: IDE cd rom SCSI error # 6605-03 count 1 pass error occured 1 description: compaq cd rom drive, position 2, embedded controller, cd rom failed read test, media not in drive. More info: hard drive 1 type 65 primary drive 2 not installed secondary drive 1 " " " " 2 " Partition info: current fixed disk drive 1 partition:1 status:0 type:non-dos vol. label:0 Mbytes:4 system:0 usage:0 partition: c:2 status:A type:pri dos vol.label:c drive Mbytes:1026 system:fat16 usage:100% Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi kathi: Since you have an older PC using a CD-ROM that's not plug & play, you'll need to find the DOS CD driver & customize your win 95 install floppy disk (must have driver installed to floppy & changes made to drvcopy.inf, config.sys, & autoexec.bat to work). ; DRVCOPY.INF ; ; This is the Driver Copy information file for ; real-mode CD-ROM drivers. ; ; These driver(s) are copied to the root of the hard disk ; during setup, and are installed in config.sys and autoexec.bat ; ; This file MUST be modified by the OEM prior to shipping ; to end users. ; ; OEMs will need to modify this to add the proper name(s) ; for their real-mode CD ROM drivers. ; Lines that must be modified are marked OEM_Modify ; You can also copy additional drivers and add lines to autoexec.bat ; and config.sys using this file. [version] ; Do not change this section signature=$chicago$ [DestinationDirs] ; Do not change this section RM.driver.dest.copy = 30 ; root directory [install] ; Do not change this section copyfiles=RM.driver.dest.copy updatecfgsys=RM.Sys.upd updateautobat=RM.Auto.upd [RM.driver.dest.copy] ; OEM_Modify - Change the name from SAMPLE.SYS to your CD ROM drivers. ; - You can insert additional filenames for your real ; mode driver(s). ; This file name will be copied to the hard disk. SAMPLE.SYS [RM.Sys.upd] ; OEM_Modify - Change the name from SAMPLE.SYS to your CD ROM drivers. : - You can also change the driver name here and below. ; This line will be added to the user's CONFIG.SYS. DevAddDev=SAMPLE.SYS,device,,"/D:OEMCD001" [RM.Auto.upd] ; OEM_Modify - Change the "D" in L:D to represent the default drive ; letter for your CD ROM. ; - The OEMCD001 parameter should agree with the ; config.sys parameter above. ; This line will be added to the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT CmdAdd=MSCDEX.EXE,"/D:OEMCD001 /L:D" [SourceDisksNames] ; Do not change this section 100="%oem.boot.desc%",,5 [SourceDisksFiles] ; OEM_Modify - Change the name from SAMPLE.SYS to your CD ROM drivers. ; Do not change the 100,,2000 ; This file will be copied to the hard disk root directory. SAMPLE.SYS=100,,2000 [Strings] ; This string is displayed to the user. It can be localized as ; necessary. oem.boot.desc="Setup Boot Disk" ================================================= The other way to install Win 95 is to use a floppy install version or to have a large enought hard drive where you can use Win 3.1 (if you can get CD-ROM to work) to create a directory like win95cd, then use File Manager to copy all files (including hidden files) to your hard drive (you can leave out the funstuff data). Then you should be able deltree Windows (1st) then DOS (last) directories (make sure you delete hidden files in c: (io.sys, msdos.sys, & command.com files before using deltree). Then use Win 98 startup to a: & use dir command to start (c:\win95cd\setup), you'll still need to put CD-ROM driver on hard drive & use autoexec.bat to make it work. This is a lot of work, but trying to get older CD-ROM drives to work is a real pain. Good luck. Z ================================================= Win 95 full version on floppy disks > EBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2051094983

Kathi if you can suply the model number of the cdrom and sound card if cdrom is attached to it we may be able to help.

hey i need HELP!! with my computer when ever i start-up my computer it says: loading cd-rom drives-------------no drives found aborting cd-rom installation it also say that mscd001 is down write back soon plz

sir, oiam creating one package now i want to write my data into cd. but i need a security for with out my cd in the cd rom the s/w don't work. can u send me details what to do?. send my email plz bye Raja