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Solve : MS-DOS - WIN98 - CD/DVD recognition?

Answer» <html><body><p>Son crashed his T22 :-/<br/><br/>However, he has lost all his product software - and previously installed W2000.  When he installed the W2000 he deleted all his Think Pad Hot Keys.<br/><br/>We are having to rebuild the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/system-238321" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SYSTEM">SYSTEM</a>.  IBM says they no longer support W98.<br/><br/>We obtained a W98 Statup Disk, and did an FDISK and did a FORMAT c: /s.  <br/><br/>It installed the autoexe, etc. in a D: drive.  Now when we boot - we go to the c: dos prompt.<br/><br/>The computer does not recognize the CD/DVD Rom drive.  We have the ROM driver on floppy - but we do not know how we can get the computer to recognize the CD/DVD Rom drive to use the Win 98 CD to get the computer up and running.<br/><br/>Any suggestions?<br/><br/>Thank you,<br/>AZ RattlerW98 was the original operating system.<br/><br/>DeeDee Smith - AZ RattlerHi,<br/><br/>When you formatted the c: drive with the /s switch you made the hard drive bootable. Try formatting the c: drive without any switches. When that completes, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/put-11868" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PUT">PUT</a> the Win98 disk in the CD drive and boot the system.<br/><br/>If that doesn't work, go into "setup" (there should be an <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/indicator-1041513" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INDICATOR">INDICATOR</a> during boot as to which key to hit to enter setup) and change the order of the boot process, so that the first device it <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/checks-914749" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CHECKS">CHECKS</a> is the CD.<br/><br/>Good luck and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/let-11597" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LET">LET</a> us know how you make out.<br/><br/></p></body></html>


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