Win 98 help needed

[colloms]

I have upgraded to windows 98. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean
install. I have loaded my sound card drivers. Everything seems to be
working fine except when I go to dos and try to access my cdrom or zip drive
I get a invalid drive specification error. Can someone tell me what I need
to do? Thanks in advance.

[antony.vernalls]

you need to install the drivers for them in dos, windows is using its own
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[Jeff]

Collom,
If you know of someone who has win98 pre-installed from Packard Bell on
their system, you can copy the file DosMODE.exe and place the statement to
it in the autoexec, and it will load the sound and CD ROM drivers for your
system. If not, you'll need to download the drivers for whatever sound card
you have, and can probably get away with the universal driver from OAK which
runs about 95% of the CD ROM drives now. Hope this helps.

Jeff

[Desmond Koene]

On Sun, 7 May 2000 01:56:22 -0700, "colloms" <col...@usit.net> wrote:

>I have upgraded to windows 98. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean
>install. I have loaded my sound card drivers. Everything seems to be
>working fine except when I go to dos and try to access my cdrom or zip drive
>I get a invalid drive specification error. Can someone tell me what I need
>to do? Thanks in advance.

Have you got a bootdisk of win98? This will access the cdrom drive.
After that you could install win98 from cdrom.
Partition the hard disk with the dos program fdisk first, though.

Have a great day

Kind regards:
Desmond Koene
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[Harri]

get somewhere file MTMCDAI.SYS

this works with ALL cd-rom drivers.
then add to config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:CD001

and to AUTOEXEC.BAT

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CD001 /L:D

hope this works..

-Rawen

Desmond Koene kirjoitti viestissä ...

[DAVID]

I have a disk for your cdrom to work in DOS
Do you want it

[Joe Madajewski]

get file MTMCDAI.SYS

here's the URL(one of them anyway...)

ftp://ftp.dreamscape.com/pub/downlaod/boot/MTMCDAI.SYS

Good Luck (it's only a16k d/l)

Joe

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