Hey people, I am NEW to the forum and hopfully it can be of great help. I hope to help and recieve help from and for other members. My problem right now is I have a laptop(Sony Vaio PCG-C1MV) that needs a fresh install of XP, I deleted the old partition and has a new one already formatted and ready to go. Problem, i dont have the original external cd-rom drive that CAME W/ the laptop which prohibits me from installing XP because i have no cd drive. I have a 3rd party external drive(IN.coder cdrw/dvd) which worked fine when the computer was RUNNING. Dos does not reconize it because the boot disks do not have a driver for it. The external USB floppy drive works fine. I have contacted IN.coder and they are working on sending me the dos drivers. As soon as i get them i can install them, but how do i do that? What command or steps need to be taken to allow dos to reconize the optical drive. I am using win98SE boot disk. Any input will make you my new friend. Please help out.


--- TonyThen, go into the BIOS setup area called Boot Order and set your boot order to:

CDRom - 1st
Floppy - 2nd
Hard Drive - 3rd (the one you want to boot from and install the OS on.pnp must be enabled.....which i trust it is??
Don't forget to save before you exit and then give it a try.

or this>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994
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Hey Merlin, thanks for the reply and that usually would work. The Dos reconized the drive and gave it a name "MSCD001" or somthing like that but could not assign a driver to is. It states that there is no vaild driver for the drive. Anyone KNOW how to install or assign a driver(s) to a drive? Its a USB 2.0 In.Coder cdrw/dvd drive. I dont think it has a problem supporting USB because the external flopply drive is USB. I have the driver being sent to me but i dont know how to install it so that dos will reconize it.