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by musebasa

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I have a win 98 with external usb cd rom and it crashed so bad that i had to reinstall it now the problem is that it is not reading the external cd rom (Buslink usb 2.0) and i am unable to install the new system from 98 cd. How do i install the driver for the cd rom. I went to their site and downloaded the driver on a floppy disk. How do i load the cd rom driver on the machine so that it can read the cd rom.

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by thechas

The driver that you downloaded for the drive likely is a Windows only driver.

The main problem is enableing DOS mode access for the USB bus.

If you need to install Windows from scratch, you have a bit of a problem, as the W98 startup disk doesnot include USB support.

Do you have another PC that you could temporarily install the hard drive into?
If so, install the hard drive as a slave, and create a folder (such as W98) and copy the W98 Cd onto the drive.

Place the drive back into it's PC, boot up with the W98 startup disk, and switch to the W98 folder. Run setup from there.

Beyond that, the only other options would be to temporaily install an IDE CD drive onto the system, or get a parallel port drive adapter that would allow you to have DOS mode access to the drive.

Chas

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