Don, thank you for your courtesy. I too am having a similar problem. I am trying to get my system to recognize my Samsung Combo drive. Where do I obtain a bootdisk with a DOS CD-ROM Driver. I've tried creating my own (1st time) and I don't have the right files. When I try to run setup.exe, it tells me that "This program can not be run in DOS". Obviously, my attempt at making my own bootdisk was not successful.

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echoing Dons' input... Bill: http://www.bootdisk.com is where to find images of various bootdisks. Download one to a hard-drive; self-expand it to a floppy; use that floppy. Be sure to get the '98 SE version with CDROM drivers. cyclops: You reformated the drive; it has no OS (system files at least) or CDROM drivers installed as result. You can make a drive bootable to a C:>\ prompt; you can also add CDROM drivers to it and thus be able to access the CDROM. To make a drive bootable to dos (C:>\ )prompt, you either use the appended command: format c: /s via '9x boot-disk (since we're dealing with '9x here) or, after using the standard: format c: (which just formats the drive) via a'9x boot disk run the command: sys c: (from the a:>\ prompt). Either route is OK; the appended command is a little quicker? The " /s " is a switch that tells the format process to transfer the minimum system files required to the drive to allow it to boot to a dos (C: ) prompt. the " sys c: " command is the long way round to the same end. (No " " in either case.) But 'usually' when installing '9x one either boots up via the CDROM (if bios both allows it and recognises the CDROM at boot-time), or boots via the '9x boot-disk (which will/should include CDROM drivers). Either approach is OK; it's dependant on bios options and personal preferences. The boot-disk approach is perhaps the least messy/fiddly, and generally most used? Some useful tutorials on (re-)installing '98: http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.bale1/formatinstall.htm http://www.compguystechweb.com/index.html and Mesich has some useful info too (various issues): http://www.mesich.com/HowTo.html Note to responses 1, 2, 3: Remember chaps when you were a novice and didn't know much (if anything)? Easy to poke fun at those starting out; not so easy to help??? It takes courage and humility to admit one's limits and ask for help (albeit sometimes in less than clear/correct terminolgy/language). It takes only arrogance to belittle others less well informed? Hang in Cyclops/Bill - just about everyone (including 1, 2, & 3) has been where you are now - at some time or other; you'll get across it all in no time.

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o.k. cyclops, I hope this is the last post. Ask a friend for a windows 98 startup disk. If no one has, go to a friends computer with windows 98se on it. go to Control panel, then to Add/remove software. Then click on the tab "Startup disk" and make the startup disk. Take this disk and restart your computer with it. A menu will come, choose: cdrom support. Now you will have access to your cdrom. Just type e: and press enter. then type setup

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I have to echo Don's sentiment. If we have to go down the screen, item 1, item 2, etc. and say "the customer didn't put it in exact syntax or phraseology and therefore I cannot help" then we are not very good technicians, are we? Don easily hit the problem on the head and offered help, not embarassment. Kudos to Don.

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