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by haleyheyt

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cd rom has been replacd. Been told master disk and diskette is now no good. Is this true? Also, system has had hard drive formatted by mistake. How do I load new cd drivers into DOS to allow me to load master cd? (if possible.) Any help would be appreciated.!!! Contact haleyheyt@cs.com

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by parbo

Go to bootdisk.com and download the file for the win98 bootdisk. the downloaded file will be an executable and once you run it it asks for a blank floppy if not blank it formats it and write the necessary files to the disk. The win98 bootdisk will load almost any cdrom driver.
This should get you going again...

by csmith

If you have a Win95 PC, get a boot floppy.
Download the CDROM driver from the manufacturers' website.
Copy the driver to the boot floppy.
Add the command for the driver to CONFIG.SYS on the floppy.
(Remember to also download the instructions with the driver for the CDROM, if they are not included in the compressed file)
Copy MSCDEX.EXE to the boot floppy.
Add the MSCDEX.EXE command to AUTOEXEC.BAT on the floppy. (Don't forget the switches)
Boot on the floppy, and you can access the CDROM.
Regards, Chris

by csmith

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There is another option that ia essentially the same.
If the format of the hard drive was done with the /s switch you can also add config.sys and autoexec.bat to the hard disk and boot on the HD.
Either way, The new CDROM drive that you installed should have had a floppy disk included with it.
The disk has a file on it with the some name xxxxxxxx.sys. The xxxxxxxx will be some abbreviation of the make and model of the CDROM.
Use the copy command and copy this file to the boot floppy, or the HD. (Whichever one you decide to set up to boot on.)
You should have received the instruction book with the new CDROM, or there is a text file on the disk you received with the new CDROM.
Use notepad, to add a line to CONFIG.SYS, of the form,
device=xxxxxxxx.sys /D:yyyyyyyy /?? /?? /??
(The /?? are switches)
(CONFIG.SYS should be now copied to whichever drive you have chosen as the boot device.)
The problem here is, you did not specify which CDROM you are using, so I can not specify the command, but it is in the instructions, which, if you do not have, you can download from the manufacturer, along with the driver.
Then MSCDEX.EXE has to be copied to the boot floppy or boot hard drive. (Whichever you have chosen as the boot device.)
Again, using notepad, add a line to AUTOEXEC.BAT of the form
MSCDEX.EXE /D:yyyyyyyy /L:D
The yyyyyyyy is the same driver name of the CDROM.
(AUTOEXEC.BAT is now to be copied to whichever drive you have chosen as the boot device.)
Please note:: These are general instructions, and there are proprietary differences implemented by some CDROM manufacturers.
The switch /L:D assumes that there is only one hard drive, and you wish to assign the CDROM as drive D:

This is a difficult procedure the first time you do it, so, please read the manufacturers' instructions, even though they usually demonstrate that english is their second language.

Regards, Chris

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