Bryan I have seen this happen before. What I would do is copy the data off of the CD_ROM to the HD in a temporary directory(C:\INSTEMP) and install it from there. There could be any number of causes. I am guessing that this is a Creative Labs 2X CD-ROM. If you are using the real mode drivers to access the CD-ROM(lines in config.sys and autoexec.bat)that will cause some things to work just not quite as they should. The CD-ROM will be in compatibility mode. The other option is that between the CD-ROM and that CD and the way it was made things are off just enough to make it not work. B Coe CM Productions At 10:58 PM 3/30/98 EST, you wrote: >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: CD-ROM Won't Read > >A friend has a P166 with Win95 and a 2x CD-ROM drive. He bought IBM Simply >Speaking Gold and found it would not install. He can view the directory >listing on the CD, including setup.exe, but when he double-clicks setup.exe, >he gets a message to the effect that the file does not exist or cannot be >found. > >IBM sent him a new CD. Same result. Then he got a CD with a destop publishing >program and it installed fine. > >My friend speculates that the 2x drive is too old, not good enough for Simply >Speaking. Is such a thing possible? Is there any possibility of other hardware >concerns playing a role in this problem? > >Why would the CD drive work with everything but one program? > >Bryan S. Tyson >Greenville SC > >