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To: Peter H. Hodge who wrote (1233)	6/9/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

It sure sounds like you are doing every thing right to create a DOS boot disk. Two comments though: what happens when you do a directory listing on drives D through L and could you post your config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I don't know the answer to your question as to whether the Win 98 setup program will create a brand new registry when you update from Win 95. Perhaps somebody who has installed Win 98 beta can answer this question.

To: Peter H. Hodge who wrote (1233)	6/9/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Some suggestions: First, if you don't specify LASTDRIVE in config.sys, you only get some number of drive letters, probably 10. I always put LASTDRIVE=Z. Second, if you're not already doing it, you can specify the CD rom drive letter in MSCDEX. As I recall it is an L switch in the form /L:M for drive M, but you'd better look that one up. This takes the guesswork out of cd letter assignment. Third, driver loaded is only half the battle. Check that the driver reference (D switch value) in MSCDEX matches the driver ID in config.sys (also D switch). Use /V (verbose) on MSCDEX to see if it loads correctly also. Fourth, maybe it's something else entirely <G>. Good luck