Summary: Okay, I have a lost CD drive, but a person told me I could download MSCD.EXE from microsoft.com. But I went there, and I totally could not find it. Ca...
Summary: A laptop drive requires an adapter to fit into a standard PC. They don't cost the earth know - but I've no idea just how much "sand/earth" they demand...
Summary: If you have a full version CD of '95 then you do not need to install DOS. You will need either '95 boot-disk, or a DOS (with CDROM support) boot-disk ...
Summary: You seem to suggest this was an Upgrade attempt - not a dual-boot attempt - that failed? Presuming this is was an true Upgrade... As soon as XP began ...
Summary: You neglected to state if your O/S is Windows 95,98,98SE, etc. If you are not running 98, you might want to find out who manufactured your CD, and dow...
Summary: When you have sucessfully partitioned/formatted (fat32) the drive also install CDROM drivers (mscd.exe) so as to allow you to boot to C: and then acce...
Summary: It's been age since I installed '98 so my memory is a liittle rusty... I don't think the drivers are installed to the drive/partition during setup; bu...
Summary: I think you having a bit of confusion overe there. Such as mscd000 driver is not exsist. Your cd should have a driver what is something.sys and the op...
Summary: True on both counts. I am a novice and don't know the difference whether I'm in BIOS or DOS or where ever. I don't know if my drive is recognized in B...
Summary: This is a little long... You have an interesting situation, and I suggest it is unnecessarily complicated... Looking at your HD configuration, I canno...
Summary: This one does seem to have become a saga...? Perhaps Steve could: (via '98 boot-disk - with CDROM support) configure the drive and preformat the (prim...
Summary: I'm pretty sure you need at least 64Meg. RAM. One other approach you could try: Install at least 64Meg RAM. format the 2Gig drive (as fat32); make it ...
Summary: Using a '98 boot-disk you could preconfigure/format the drive (fat32 if '98/W2K/XP); make it bootable to a dos prompt (sys c: routine); then install C...
Summary: You probably need a driver (ATAPI) for the CD device. Normally a driver diskette is provided with the device, but if you don't have one, try the drive...
