Win95 may not have the automatic capability, but you can make an homemade boot disk with the CD-ROM info, drivers, etc, in the autoexec.bat & config.sys files which will work. If going the Win98 boot disk method, wouldn't it be prudent to replace the command.com with a Win95 compatible version? PS: where can we get a more "ideal driver" for this purpose than Oak? jack payton On Sun, 20 May 2001 19:30:10 -0700 Ted Gamin <[log in to unmask]> writes: > If You have a friend running WIN98 You can make a > boot disk with CD Rom support as one of the options > when booting. Win 95 does not have this feature and > while it's not an ideal driver ( Oak Technologies > ATAPI) it will get Her CD to work enough to reload > windows...HTH...Ted PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml