I am using WIN95 on a DELL Dimension XPS D300 from 1997. I need to reload the OS and I am preparing to do that. I have replaced the original toshiba CD-ROM drive with a Yamaha CRW2200E. My log from that installation shows that I didn't need to supply any drivers and I don't appear to have any drivers on a CD-ROM. Windows seemed to have all it needed already, although it required 2.5 boots to get through the acceptance of the new drive.

On the Boot-Disk, I have REM'ed out the lines in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that refer to the Toshiba drive, and I have booted now with it and successfully accessed the Yamaha CD-ROM drive. But I have looked at the .INF files on the WIN95 CD-ROM and I see that there they want to load the toshiba driver onto the hard drive. Using that driver will hang the system. On the other hand, I don't have any other driver to tell it about, and it's all on a CD-ROM anyway.

So, if I try a reload of WIN95, am I going to run into trouble? Any suggestions on how I might go forward using this Yamaha CD-ROM drive? Thanks in advance.