I have an older dell computer that we have loaded w95 on through a stack of floppies, only because the other way of doing it with the cd-rom didn't work. I usually use a windows98 startup disk because it automatically loads mscdex for me. I've done this 25+ times with no problems. This machine on the other hand has given me a headache while trying to get it to recognize the cd rom drive. It has 64mg of memory and a 44x cd drive. I'm not sure of the processor speed but I was successful in loading and running windows95. I just can't upgrade or load any other programs because it won't let me use the cd rom. I tried to use a cd rom setup disk and it said that I must have mscdex loaded on the hard drive. I'm assuming that since I received the following errors with the setup boot disk that mscdex isn't copied over: ATAPI IDE CDROM device driver version (blah, blah, blah ERROR: Unable to detect atpi ide cd-rom atapi ide cdrom device driver not loaded. a:\>mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /v Device driver not found: 'mscd001' No valid cdrom drivers selected. If you have any tips or suggestions I would be glad to hear them. Thanks

make a boot disk here for win95 http://www.bootdisk.com/ i am not good with this,it gave a lot of trouble before and what i did i use second dos disk,from there i go to A:> COPY MSCDEX.exe C: {ENTER} copy it from a to c,then install the disk for your cd rom

make a boot disk here for win95 http://www.bootdisk.com/ i am not good with this,it gave a lot of trouble before and what i did i use second dos disk,from there i go to A:> COPY MSCDEX.exe C: {ENTER} copy it from a to c,then install the disk for your cd rom. also try to boot from win98 disk,and choose start with cd rom support

For whatever help this might be, if any. (from a web page on DOS) MSCDEX Provides access to CD-ROM drives. Syntax: MSCDEX [/E/K/S/V] [/D:driver ... ] [/L:letter] [/M:buffers] /E Forces the CD-ROM driver to use expanded memory, if available, to store sector buffers. /K Forces Dos to recognize CD-ROM discs encoded in Kanji. /S Enables sharing of CD-ROM drives on networks /V Forces memory statistics to be displayed on start-up /D:driver The driver signature of the CD-ROM device driver (assigned when the device is loaded in config.sys). /L:letter The drive letter to assign to the first CD-ROM drive. If there is more than one drive, the additional drives are assigned subsequent available drive letters. M:buffers The number of sector buffers. Notes: The device driver for the CD-ROM drive must be loaded in Config.sys via a DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH command which must include a /D:driver parameter. This parameter assigns a driver name (or 'signature") to the CD-ROM device driver. The driver name is usually something along the lines of MSCD000. Each CD-ROM device driver being used must have a unique driver name. The device driver is specific to the drive and typically is supplied by the CD-ROM manufacturer on a floppy. The MSCDEX command must include a /D:driver parameter that matches the corresponding /D:driver parameter on the CD-ROM device driver's command line. MSCDEX uses the /D:driver to identify the correct CD-ROM device driver. MSCDEX can be run from autoexec.bat or at the command prompt but should not be used after Windows has started. If using SmartDrive, this should be loaded after MSCDEX. SmartDrive can significantly speed up the CD-ROM drive by read-caching it. By default, when SmartDrive loads, it checks for the presence of MSCDEX; if it is found, CD-ROM caching is enabled. File Details File Name Default Location Dos Ver. Win Ver. Size Date Source Mscdex.exe c:\windows\command 7.0 Win95 25 4731 11/07/95 win95_04.cab 7.1 Win95 (OSR2.x) 25 4731 24/08/96 win95_06.cab Win98 25 4731 11/05/98 Base5.cab Win98 SE 25 4731 23/04/99 Base5.cab Superscripts denote which same size files, if any, are identical (using FC). no keysnono keys

mscdex should be in the windows\command folder. if not, try exracting it from the cab file on the install disks, the set I have is original win95 (ver 4.00.950, 13 + bootdisk ) mscdex is on disk 5. Run extract /? for switches to pull out from cab files.

The boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com should work! Mscdex will not work by itself. You also need a driver for the cdrom drive. A common one that is often used is 'oakcdrom.sys'.