Have your entered the cardsoft entires in your config sys as is specified at:

http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/pcmcia.htm

?  If so you will then need to enter the CDROM driver information in your
config.sys and autoexec.bat files.   The lines that you will need to enter
will be similar to those on the page:

http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/cdrom.htm

except you will need to enter the file names of your CDROM drivers,
including the path. Maybe this will get you going.

Doug


At 6/19/01 02:23 PM, Kurt H. Hammer wrote:

>I have recently acquired a Hitachi Slimeline laptop.  Both the floppy
>drive and the CD-Rom are external to the laptop.  The laptop did not come
>with a CD-Rom originally, and was purchased separately.  The CD-Rom is
>made by Hi-Val and came with a generic PCMCIA card/cable for the CD-Rom.
>
>Here is my problem - I would like to format the hard drive and install
>windows fresh, but I can not get the CD-Rom to function in DOS.

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