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I have an issue I hope you can help me with.  I have a laptop which was running Windows 98.  I say was, because due to the SYSTEM becoming slow I decided to format the hard drive.  I followed the reinstallation procedure.

The laptop has an external USB CDROM drive, which was reading OK prior to the format, this is where I need the help.  At the moment I have the laptop booting up from the floppy drive, I cannot SEEM to get the laptop to see my CDROM drive to REINSTALL Windows 98.  I have used the generic OAKCDROM drivers, which come with the standard MS_DOS floppy boot files, which failed.  So I’ve tried using the actual drivers (TEACCD-224E) for the device and modifying the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files but during boot up the system does not see the drive.  It says 'device not found', even though the drive is plugged in and powered up.

I have downloaded some help files and followed instructions in order for the laptop to see the CDROM during boot up, but as yet I'm still hitting a wall.

Until I can get the system to see the CDROM device, I'm stuck.  Do you have any ideas?

Regards

JuiceThe good news is yes this can be done...the other good news is it sounds like you are relatively comfortable with editing config and autoexec files....

Travel Here  and follow Method #3. There is a download link at the beginning of the instructions which will need to be added to your Win98 bootdisk called dat.exe. Double clik it with the Win98 floppy in and it will add the necessary drivers.

Then review the autoexec and config files on the floppy before trying it and make SURE they match the listing in Method #3.

You should be good to go...

p.s. Make an EXTRA Win98 bootdisk in case it doesn't go right the first time.