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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5678)	1/29/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence, get the .exe file; either it's a self-extracting archive which, when executed, will expand to the driver and possibly utilities and possibly even explanations, or else it's the driver itself. Drivers can be .exe files, though it's rare (usually the .exe drivers can load themselves after bootup, but for a CD in dos that makes no sense, as MSCDEX has to know about them earlier). My guess is, it's an archive. Put it in a temporary directory (not c:\temp) and double click it. See if it doesn't produce more interesting stuff. Aren't there some words about it on the web site. Same comments for SBIDE. SBIDE.SYS is buried in a self-expanding exe with a bunch of other stuff. This is typical. One more time, welcome to Wintel <g>. NTFSDOS is the thing we've discussed a few times on this thread which allows you to read NTFS paritions from a dos boot. Ignore it for the moment. Don't worry about all these tools; get the basics. If you didn't find expand.exe you're looking in the wrong place. It's a staple. What it does is expand those files you see on install disks as xxx.ex_ or xxx.sy_ to xxx.exe and xxx.sys. It's the install version of unzipping. BUT you don't need it to start with. You DO need: You're cd driver MSCDEX.EXE edit.com attrib.exe fdisk.exe format.com You hope you don't need the last three, but if you do, you need 'em badly. I would also recommend: scandisk.exe chkdsk.exe just as a general precaution. I may have .exe and .com wrong. Take whichever it is. (.exe and .com are both DOS executables. .com files can run in a smaller space but can use fewer resources). Of course you also need all the files that you got when making the boot disk in the first place. >>Sure do... Are you saying put quotes around C\Program Files? The funny thing about w98 not finding C\Program at startup is I click ok on the message and thats the end of it.... no repercussions in system functionality that I have come across yet. No, don't put quotes around the folder. There's a reference to it somewhere. If you've eliminated the folders, it's in the registry. For another day. It's not funny there are no repercussions. You're just failing to start a thing you don't need (as it happens). Maybe it's funny that it happened. Ha ha. You're right, it's funny<g>. Keep smiling <GGG>.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5678)	1/30/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Finding files If you do not already know there is a file find feature in Explorer..tools /find files or folders. You can use wild cards. For example you can search for expa. and it will yield all files that begin with expa. ex.* also works. I tried it for expand.com and came up empty with win95 and win98. Be sure and select 'my computer' if you want to search the entire machine. You can also do a text search. You may be able to find a call to 'program'. I just searched my new Win98 machine for text 'program' and came up with 481 files containing the term. Text search is in explorer/tools/find in Win98 and tools/find/advanced in Win95. The default settings in Win95 and 98 hide files from your view, probably for your own protection. I change the settings to see all files and all extensions. To change settings explorer/view/folder options/view in Win98 and explorer/view/options in Win95 Zeuspaul