A bit of help if you please!

[frosted]

I have recently placed a new hard drive in my old computer. In the process I had to totally reformate this drive. Somewhere along the line I lost my CD ROM. I have downloaded the driver, but seem to be a bit inept at the correct DOS commands that allow me to install this driver during startup. I believe I must configure autoexe.bat and config.sys at the least. anyone got a place to point me or any ideas? frosted

[Darren Wilson]

ok here goes

Simplest way if you haven't got a Win98 bootdisk.

Format the Hard Disk using the command FORMAT C:/S Reboot and install the CD-ROM drivers. This should then create the AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS for you. If you require MSCDEX.EXE then email me and I will send it to you if it isn't supplied on your drivers disk.


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[KWB Teck]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by frosted:
I have recently placed a new hard drive in my old computer. In the process I had to totally reformate this drive. Somewhere along the line I lost my CD ROM. I have downloaded the driver, but seem to be a bit inept at the correct DOS commands that allow me to install this driver during startup. I believe I must configure autoexe.bat and config.sys at the least. anyone got a place to point me or any ideas? frosted</font>

Example:
Config.Sys should contain a line like the following.

Device=C:\[path]\sbide.sys /D:MSCDOO1

where sbide.sys is replaced with the name of your *.sys driver.

Autoexec.bat containing this line.

C:\[path]\mscdex d:\mscdoo1

Ensure the the last switch statment {/d:mscdex001} is identical in each file or the drivers will fail to initalize.