win 98 problem

[gigabyte]

ok my hard drive has been formatted and my cd rom is not commincating with my computer i am so far as i tracked down the driver for my computer when i try to indtall this in dos it almost works excecpt it asks me to select a path for mscdex. Now i read something on the internet that said i must put the windows bootdisk in and type copy A:\mscdex.exe but it looks for the file on my boot disk and does not find it (the bootdisk was from bootdisk.com) i also tryed it with the bootdisk that came with the compute (no luck) can some one please give me a step by step guide to work from please it is windows 98 and an old ibm computer

giga

[Murf]

Have you tried one of these bootdisk Here (http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm)

Download the file double click on it and extract to a clean floppy. then boot with it.

[jtdoom]

hi

it ought to be on the win98 bootdisks at bootdisk.com

if you are looking for a small downloadable file
one can get it at microsoft itself
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/mslfiles/MSCDX223.EXE
run it to inflate it (the one in windows 98 is newer, tho)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q139/4/28.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=87165

[Alfons]

Gigabyte, how did you make the bootdisk? Did you RUN the downloaded file or just copy it to the floppy? A W95 Startup Disk won't have the CD-ROM options but the W98 one will - if made properly.

How old is the CD Drive? The early ones used different drivers and you needed additional parameters to set them up through their Interface Card or Sound Card.

[gigabyte]

thanx i managed to to get it working by installing the right driver from the floppy and then it found drive e so i could run the cd!


gigab