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To: malibuca who wrote (20890)	6/21/2001 1:34:48 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

malibuca, bummer. I hope someone knows how to help. In DOS, can you switch to the CD-ROM drive? If yes, look for something like install.exe or setup.exe and run it. But maybe setup has to be run in Windows? Gottfried

To: malibuca who wrote (20890)	6/21/2001 2:30:16 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

malibuca here is a link with win98se boot disk with cd-rom support (scroll down to near the bottom) jason-n3xt.org just to be safe, i downloaded the file WIN98SE.EXE onto my hdd and ran a norton antivirus scan on it, and it's clean. here's another boot disk site, if you prefer drd.dyndns.org both came from this site bootdisk.com good luck, i gotta run :) mark

To: malibuca who wrote (20890)	6/21/2001 4:13:06 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

You’ll need to make a bootable floppy to get your system going again. Since you can now boot to DOS, you’re quite a long way along already. I’m putting in extra spaces for readability. You only need one. Format the floppy FORMAT A: /S You’ll need to make a CONFIG.SYS file. This is a text file with these Two lines… DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=A:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CD1 You’ll need to make an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Again, it’s a text file With two lines… A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CD1 PATH=A: Be sure these two files are plain text. (Don’t use a word processor.) You Can even use the command COPY CON CONFIG.SYS and type the lines From the screen, finishing with Ctrl-Z and Enter. You’ll need to find the files OADCDROM.SYS HIMEM.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE And copy them to your floppy. You may need to borrow them from some other Computer if you can’t get them from yours. Once you boot with this floppy, you’ll be able to read your CD in DOS. From there You’ll be able to re-install Windows. Cheers, PW. #reply-8686374 #reply-8051423 #reply-11412809