Drivers for CD RW

you could go to:
http://www.freecom.de/
and at the bottom of the page you'll see a link for 'downloads' click this and the next page will be their drivers/patches page

or

you could go to any working win 98 system and make a boot-disk that will work on the broken system.

Woody

Have you tried going to www.drivers.com. They have all kinds of drivers for practically everything. You will need to know what kind of CD you have in order to download the right driver.

One way you can try and install Windows 95 is to set your bios to look to the Win95 cd for boot up. If Win95 doesn't have your drivers then you will have to download them before you can proceed any further. This should not be the case if you are trying to install Win98 or W2K. I've formatted lots of computers and set the bios to boot from CD and had no problems installing these OS'.

Good Luck and I hope this helps.

Go to bootdisk.com, create Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE boot disk and boot computer from floppy. You'll have access to your CD-ROM.

Alex

You might check the drivers listed at this web site: http://www2.driverguide.com/cgi/drifound.pl?ID=freecom&NAME=Freecom.
Driverguide.com is a members-only web site (free subscription) that offers a huge database of drivers.
Since you didn't include the model number of your Freecom CD-RW I don't know for certain your is one of the several listed.
Good luck
OJ

Hi:

All you need to do is paste the following link into your web browser.

http://www.bootdisk.com/genfiles/thepatch.exe

It will download a file called the patch. The patch has generic cd rom drivers & will automatically alter your autoexec.bat & your config.sys so your cd can use the drivers. There are 4 drivers cd1.sys thru cd4.sys. If the first one doesnt work on your system alter the config.sys file to one of the other 3 drivers.

Be sure to scan it for virus first & then execute it. Copy all of the files onto your boot disk, except the actual patch file.

that should be that. For more info go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdir.htm#thepatch

-D

If you can arrange WINDOWS 98 startup disk, this will definitely work. When you boot using this disk, there will be options whether boot with CD support or not. WIN95 startup disk off course won't work.

You don't say which windows you want to install so i'll use this from windows 98se the boot disk has a feature that will ask if you want to start with the CD Drive and will use special drivers to install your CD in Dos then you can change to the CD's Drive Letter and type " Setup " and install Windows. Watch as it is booting up and it will tell you what the CD Drive Letter is.

What previous responders have been trying to tell you is that regardless whether you have Windows 95 or Windows 98, you CAN USE a Windows 98 floppy boot disk to boot your computer to DOS. The Windows 98 floppy boot disk has drivers for most types of CD ROM drive. When the startup menu appears, select Start with CD ROM Support, and you should then be able to access your CD drive to load Windows.

I know you have 95, but just trust me (and the many others above)Use a Win98 or WinME boot disk - these have a generic IDE CD-rom driver built in, the Win95 boot disk does not. You only need the disk for access to the CD-rom, it does not mean you need to install 98. If you're that concerned about it, you could always boot with the 98 disk and copy the CD install directory to your hard drive (I always do this anyway for the convenience of not having to load the Windows CD everytime a configuration change is made.), or you could even just copy the CD drivers off the Win98/WinME boot disk over to your Win95 disk. But really, there is no need for that, just boot to a Win98 disk, then run Win95 setup from your CD.

You are not prepared to take risk by using WIN98 startup disk (You can arrange it). OK then try this.
Boot using W95. Edit config.sys
DEVICE = c:\oakcdrom.sys /d: mscd000
and edit autoexec.bat
c:\mscdex.exe /d: mscd000
For this you need two files to be copied on your boot disk (at c:) oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe which are again available with WIN98 start up disk. do this transfer sys a: c: and reboot your system.

Go to www.drivers.com

Username: drivers
Password: all

If you have trouble, use the model number when searching for the drivers.

Good luck.

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