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how do I boot cd drive from dos
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Original Message
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Name: tonysavo
Date: December 27, 2003 at 09:46:21 Pacific
Subject: how do I boot cd drive from dos
OS: win 95
CPU/Ram: 128mb
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Comment: While attempting to upgrade win 95 to 98 i lost power and everything was lost. I can get to the DOS prompt and have a recovery disc from compaq. How do I get the cd to start from dos? Please help thanks
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Response Number 1
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Name: dwight
Date: December 27, 2003 at 12:10:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I assume you are getting to DOS from the recovery disk, which should load a generic driver for the CD drive. At prompt try D:/setup or E:/setup. Your CD may have been moved back one letter. If "setup" does not work try "help" or "browse" after the drive.
Its been a while but I think this should help.
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Response Number 2
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Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: December 27, 2003 at 12:34:07 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Check your bios/setup to see if you can boot from the cdrom. If so, try that as the cd may be bootable. Otherwise, as dwight says, boot from a bootdisk that has cdrom support. The command would be: e:\setup as your cdrom would be one drive letter higher due to the bootdisk creating a ramdrive at d: Also the installation command may not be 'setup'. Check the documentation with the recovery disk.
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