truemke
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Installing a cd-rom drive.
I had to format my hard drive. When I re-installed Win 95,
there is no cd-rom drive installed.
there is no cd-rom drive installed.
need more information on your system
I don't understand how you installed Win95... unless you used floppies. Otherwise, your cd is probably connected to an IDE connection on a sound card. Configure it as slaveon the IDE bus that youe hard drive is running on and see what happens.
When you formated your hard drive, you erased several things required for your cd-rom to be recognized, specifically the AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and CD-ROM drivers -- Microsofts is MSCDEX.EXE or something.
My suggestion would be to get to the web site of your cd-rom manufacturer - then download what will most likely be a self extracting program which will give you those files and drivers.
If you have a version of MS-DOS, you could install that and then install the drivers.
My suggestion would be to get to the web site of your cd-rom manufacturer - then download what will most likely be a self extracting program which will give you those files and drivers.
If you have a version of MS-DOS, you could install that and then install the drivers.
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truemke,
Sometimes Windows won't see the CDROM at the end of setup. Was it recognized after a re-boot?
To save time in solving your problem, it will be helpful to know about components installed in your system.
Tell us the CPU, memory, hard drive(s), CDROM, etc.
Also post your autoexec.bat & config.sys files here.
Regards,
Ralph
Sometimes Windows won't see the CDROM at the end of setup. Was it recognized after a re-boot?
To save time in solving your problem, it will be helpful to know about components installed in your system.
Tell us the CPU, memory, hard drive(s), CDROM, etc.
Also post your autoexec.bat & config.sys files here.
Regards,
Ralph
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Thank You!