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need a driver after an fdisk

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by mtnpilot

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I need the cd rom driver for a compaq presario 1235. I fdisked the laptop now I cannot get the cd rom to operate. I figured I could download the cdrom driver throw it on a floppy and boot from that to get the cdrom towork so i can reinstall win98 seon it....help

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by pinoy_teknik

I think you only need a Win98 Start-up disk

You can find it at www.bootdisk.com
or if you have available PC working there you can create it there at the Add and remove program, at the control panel

Use that start-up to boot your computer at the command menu select Start computer with CD-ROM support. The driver of CD-ROM will be installed.
AND YOU CAN ACCESS THE CD-ROM DRIVE NOW..
If there is problem occur during the installation of the CD-ROM driver by the startup make sure that CD-ROM is properly setup.(IDE cable, power cable for CD-ROM and jumper settings)

and you say that you fdisked your drive already and now your going to format your drive using format.com. FORMAT C:/S

After fomatting go to your CD-ROm drive and at the command prompt type SETUP.

Pinoy_Teknik

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