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Lost CD-Rom drive after formating HD
Name: Donna Date: December 18, 2000 at 08:24:52 Pacific
Comment:
I completed formating the hard drive and want to install windows 95 from a CD. The problem is that the computer can't find the CD-rom drive. How can I get it to find it? Do I need to install a driver for the CD-rom? If so, is there a generic driver to use since I don't have the driver for the CD-rom drive.
Name: Red Date: December 18, 2000 at 08:29:23 Pacific
Reply:
You need the drivers. get the from the website of the company that made the drive. The startup disk has the drivers too.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave Date: December 18, 2000 at 08:31:46 Pacific
Reply:
www.bootdisk.com
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Response Number 3
Name: hugh tellem Date: December 18, 2000 at 09:19:02 Pacific
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How can it, there aren't any drivers loaded for the CD-Rom. The W98 bootdisk has the drivers. BTW, You don't need the drivers from the co that made it, unless it's external.
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Response Number 4
Name: steve Date: December 18, 2000 at 09:23:11 Pacific
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I would install dos first if you have it, that way any drivers can be easily installed.
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Response Number 5
Name: bob b Date: December 18, 2000 at 09:34:09 Pacific
Name: scike Date: December 18, 2000 at 09:34:48 Pacific
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If you need disk to install CD-ROM Drive i will send you if you need and bootdisk.
e-mail me
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Response Number 7
Name: Herb Schulkind Date: December 18, 2000 at 15:07:34 Pacific
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I have a Windows98 start up disk, but when I click on "Start up with CD ..." error comes back "Can't find MSC001" also when I try MSCDEX.exe same error message ??
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Response Number 8
Name: mel Date: December 19, 2000 at 07:17:12 Pacific
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Sounds like your bios is not seeing the cdrom. When I reformatted i lost one of my hard drives. I went into bios and had it autodetect, it fixed the problem. Not sure it's the same for a cd-rom.
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