how to work a cd-rom?

WhiteWashMan

erm ok, as a few of you know through my drunken ramblings and such, i recently reformated my c drive.
problem is that now i cant get my cd-rom workin again. this means that i cant re-install windows, which means i cant get on-line which means no q2. wwwaaaahhhhh.

i have the drivers for the cd-rom. now all i need is the know-hoiw to get them to load up when i boot up me system. do i have to write them into batch files etc? at the moment i have to use a dodgey floppy boot disk. unfortunately most of the stuff wont work on that coz i keep gettin a wrong dos message. i think im using dos 7.
any bods know a quick solution or am i to remain in limbo for a while? of course, if anyone has windows on floppy! <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">
ohh, and it says when i boot up S.M.A.R.T capable but disabled. whats this about?
cheers
whitewash

tHE vAGGABOND

If you have a boot floppy already it should load the cd-rom drivers on its startup. If the boot disk is proper one it should have some form of cd-rom driver simply copy it to your hd and edit the config.sys and autoexec with its location. Otherwise get a gateway/dell/whatever universal win95 bootdisk from college or a mate whatever.

Winders 95 (upgrade) comes on more than 15 floppys - I recon I can get ya a copy of winders upgrade allright but then you need a copy of winders 3.11 - so all in all arounnd 30 floppys to install - then there the 6 floppys for IE4 ect....thats around a weeks work !!!


Vagggggggggggggggggggggga

ps:- Jasus, I sure can waffle cant I <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">

LegacyUser

Are you installing Windows 98?

If you have a fairly recent PC/bios, you can set it to boot from the CD-ROM first, and just insert your Windows 98 CD and boot / install from that without bothering with dloppy fisks or anything like that.

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Draco

Time to put my oar in...
Copy the driver to your bootdisk and the file mscdex.exe

Add this line to config.sys:
DEVICE=a:\.SYS /D:MSCD001

and to the autoexec.bat:
a:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L<IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/biggrin.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":D">

Now if all goes well, you once you reboot your CD-ROM should be alive.

To check the dos version just type ver.

Windows on floppy is 30 ****ing disks and takes about an hour to install. I've had to do it tooo many times.

WhiteWashMan

ok, i think i almost have it solved now. after lots of fiddling with my bios, i got it to actually recognise my cd-rom. however it still tells me that anything to do with MSCDEX is a bad command so i guess i am missing that little prog.
with a bit of luck i will get it today and get my stuff together.

as for the windows disks, erm, i was kidding! like f*ck im spending 3 days changin floppy bleedin disks around! i tell you what thouhg, any more fukkin probs with this shaggin puter an im gonna be an expert in fixin the stupid things <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">
cheers guys
whitewash

WhiteWashMan

bah, doesnt matter
new machine arrived
all i have to do now is remember how to set up everything else!
see yis in about 4 weeks <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">