Your autoexec.bat file may not always have what it takes to load CD-ROM
drivers in DOS mode.  The mscdex.exe file needs to be loaded.  the command
line should look something like this

c:\windows\mscdex.exe /d:mscd000

This then uses the environment variable set up in the device= command in the
config.sys file.  If this does not exist in your autoexec.bat, as well as a
copy mscdex.exe on your boot floppy, then you will not get the drivers to
load.

If you are still having problems, or this does not make sense, send me an
email offline with questions and I will help you out.  Also, it would help
to include a copy of your autoexec.bat and config.sys files to be sure we
aren't shooting blanks here.  Hope this helps.

Kyle

From: "Sylvie De Roy" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Cannot Install Windows98


> I have a 4X Panasonic Matshita CR574B CD-ROM (bought in 1995, it came with
> the original system configuration).  Using a Windows98 Boot disk I cannot
> install Windows98.  I get following error message: Device not found no
> OEMCD001.
>
> I have the original drivers installation diskette for the CD-ROM device so
> in DOS I copied the content of this floppy disk to my newly formatted C:
HD
> and it created a ATACR directory.
>
> I proceeded with copying the cr_atapi.sys file contained in the C:ATACR
> directory on to the Windows98 boot disk.
>
> I then opened the C:AUTOEXEC.BAT file and copied and appended its content
to
> the autoexec.bat file on the Windows98 boot disk, editing the last line to
> read DEVICE=A:.
>
> I also copied the content of C:CONFIG.SYS file to the config.sys file on
the
> Windows98 boot disk and modified the device path to read as follows:
> LASTDRIVE=Z
> DEVICE=A:\ATACR\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q
>
> I then inserted the Windows98 CD in the CD-ROM device drive and rebooted.
> No luck: I got an error message indicating that a drive overflow error was
> caused.
>
> Help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sylvie De Roy
> [log in to unmask]
> Montreal - CANADA

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