i have an old packard bell that won't detect the cd-rom. i had formatted the HD and i think i may have deleted the drivers. i tried installing the drivers from driverzone.com they installed fine and everything but it still won't detect it. i have a dox 6.22 disk and i copied all the files into the c drive without overwriting the modified autoexec.bat file and the config.sys file that setup changed to get the cd-rom drive working. and when i copy it it says that the command.com file is not found or is corrupted. i tried a dos 7.0 disk as well.. copied all the files to the root and restarted and i had the same problem. if i get dos to boot up right i can get the cd-rom to work. or am i wrong? any ideas anyone? where can i get a good boot disk (if that's the problem.)

You can download a bootdisk file at www.bootdisk.com. Then run the file to create a bootdisk. Assuming you're then going to install windows, boot from it, choose the option to install windows from cdrom. Normally dos disks don't have cdrom drivers. So, for example, if dos 6.22 was on the HD you'd still need to put the cdrom driver in config.sys and mscdex.exe in autoexec.bat. Most cdrom setup disks will modify these files or you can do it manually. But if you're going to install windows you don't need to worry about this. All this assumes the cdrom is properly configured in cmos and connected and jumpered correctly.