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disappearing CD Drive

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by groer

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I decided to reformat a Win 95 PC.
I used fdisk to delete the primary partition and then created a new one.
I formatted the drive.
I booted off a floppy with CD a driver and began the windows installation. Everything went normally until about halfway through when setup asked me for the location of its files (on the CD of course) and I discovered that the CD drive was no longer available.

What happened and how do I get around it?

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by bv2

Use a Win98 boot disk to load the CD-ROM drive. Install the OS after that. The driver you are currently using may be corrupted or not working. Also, don't forget that if you use the Win98 CD, your CD-ROM will be located at E: instead of D: as Win98 boot disk makes a 2 MB RAMdisk for system commands.

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