Lori Crouch wrote:
>
> My system had been acting unstable (losing its color, crashing constantly
> and without reason) so I thought I'd get a zip drive, copy all my files to
> it, and start from ground zero, reformatting the hard drive and
> reinstalling Windows and my other programs.
>
> I bought the zip drive used.  When I went through the installation
> process, the program installed itself into my "D" drive, overriding my CD
> Rom.  I can only assume the previous owner did not have a CD Rom drive and
> the program was installed in his "D" drive.
>
> I've since uninstalled the zip drive and got my CD Rom back, but would
> still like to install it, back up my files and reinstall Windows 98.
>
> 1.  Any suggestions on installing the zip drive?
>
> 2.  Where can I get good directions for reformatting and reinstalling
> Windows?  OR
>
> 3.  Recommend a good computer tech in the Westlake Village/Thousand Oaks
> area of California.
>
> I don't like others fooling around with my computer, but I may have made
> that inevitable.  :-P
>
> Lori Crouch
>

Note, a default left-over from DOS days requires any 'removable' device
to be assigned a drive letter BEFORE any non-writable (like a read-only
CDROM) device.  So your system was creating the proper drive letter from
the ZIP drive.  The CDROM should have become Drive letter E: (unless
somewhere in Config.sys it is attempting to set the CDROM to drive
letter D: with a switch (looks like "/L=D") setting.
--
Jean  :>))

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