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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5654)	1/28/1999 7:53:00 PM
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?reset into Win 98 Explain to me how the bios settings work for booting off the secondary IDE drive. Do you select the boot drive and it sticks? Or do you select the boot drive to boot win 98 only for one boot at a time and it resets itself? Or what. You will have to boot to 98 or NT in order to add the cd driver and mscdex to the floppy. Either will do now that you have a bootable floppy. NT can't make a bootable floppy, but it can add to one. Oh, correct that. Your 98 is on fat32, isn't it. NT can't see that, so better boot to 98. In the windows\command directory (or is it commands?) you should have MSCDEX.EXE. Add that to the boot floppy. Then somewhere you should have a dos driver for your CDROM. Probably on a driver floppy that came with the machine. Find it, and add that to the boot floppy. Then look back at my autoexec.bat and config.sys on my boot floppy. Make the LOAD (CONGIG.SYS) and MSCDEX (AUTOEXEC.BAT) entries in the files on the boot floppy. If these files don't exist, create them; they're text files. Use the uncommented entries (lines not beginning with ;). Ignore others. LOAD just loads the driver (gobbling up some of that precious DOS memory). You must substitute the name of your driver for mine. Mine is LTNIDE.SYS (as I recall). Yours will be the name of the DOS driver for your CD you put on the floppy. The command reads LOAD CDs\LTNIDE.SYS because I have my CD drivers in a CDs directory on the floppy. I could as well have put LOAD A:\CDS\LTNIDE.SYS. BTW, both the LOAD and MSCDEX lines have an entry something like /D:MSCD0001 . This pair just names the driver (LOAD) and references it (MSCDEX). MSCDEX provides a CDROM file system in the dos environment, if you want to know what is happening.