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I did not quite understand from your description whether the cd drive was not recognized, or just the disk you are trying to create.

You may have a problem with the type of media you are using. Older cd drives will not recognize cd-rw disks, and many will not recognize cd-r disks. Unless you can be sure of the hardware, you can not be sure that what you send will run.

I'm not aware of any differences in autorun between Win95 and 98. I believe you are safe in using the same process of CD creation for both.

My answer is along the same lines as the person above. We do CD duplication. The early CD drives we had had problems recognizing CD's made with a certain color, particularly the deep blue color. you may to try a different type of CD-R.

Also, when making the CD are you using Romeo or Joliet format. Joliet format will allow you to use long filenames and still be readable by MS-DOS 8.3 filenames.

M Ozog
Excellis

Is your autorun.inf file pointing to a command interpeter to output the file.

If not that may be your problem.

Download and unzip this file:
www.directionweb.com/autoplay/autoplay.zip

You will find instructions in there.

***** Also, if it is a win95 machine, make sure that the cd-rom is not some sort of slow speed like a 2x, 4x. If you are using an 8x blank cdr and try to put it into a 2x cd rom player, it will not work. No matter if you burn it off at 1x. The player will not beable to read the CD format.

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