I formatted the hardrive and now I do not have access to
the CD drive.How can I regain access to my CD Drive. I do
not have installation software for it. What shall I do.
Ben Myers - 22 Nov 2003 02:09 GMT
Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a
boot floppy.
Ben
> I formatted the hardrive and now I do not have access to
> the CD drive.How can I regain access to my CD Drive. I do
> not have installation software for it. What shall I do.
Bill Starbuck - 22 Nov 2003 16:24 GMT
How to add your CD-ROM driver to the boot disk. The boot disk might be
drive C: or it might be a Windows Startup Disk that you can insert
into drive A:.
The CD-ROM driver will normally have a name with the letters CD in it
and it will have the extension .SYS. One way to get a CD-ROM driver is
to run the installation program that came with the CD-ROM. Also, you
can usually get a driver from the web site of the companmy that made
the CD-ROM. Or you can search your C: drive for *CD*.SYS.
Using Notepad or any word processor, make a text file, name it
CONFIG.SYS and add it to the boot disk. This file should look like
this, but with the name of your CD-ROM driver in place of
CDDRIVER.SYS:
DEVICE=CDDRIVER.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
Add a copy of MSCDEX.EXE to the boot disk. You can get MSCDEX from the
folder C:\Windows/Command.
Using Notepad or any word processor, make a text file, name it
AUTOEXEC.BAT and add it to the bootdisk. It should look like this:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000
Bill Starbuck (MVP)
leigh - 23 Nov 2003 22:28 GMT
>-----Original Message-----
>I formatted the hardrive and now I do not have access to
>the CD drive.How can I regain access to my CD Drive. I do
>not have installation software for it. What shall I do.
>.
>start computer
hold f8 till it beebs
then msdos prompt
if your hard drive is c
type d:/ to go to your cd drive
if it says d not available goto next letter till it works
if your going to use your 31/2 floppy to boot insert and
type setup.exe good luck
STEVE - 01 Dec 2003 00:21 GMT
>-----Original Message-----
>I formatted the hardrive and now I do not have access to
>the CD drive.How can I regain access to my CD Drive. I do
>not have installation software for it. What shall I do.
>.
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