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Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:35:11 -0500
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> My hard drive gave out and I bought another at a used computer
> store and I installed it. It had windows NT on it and I wanted
> windows 95. I put the new hard drive in and set the BIOS to
> recognize it and then used a windows 95 startup disk to use
> Format C:/s on it. My new drive C: now had COMMAND on it and
> nothing else. I copied MSCDEX to drive C: and installed the CDROM
> drivers. The reason I put MSCDEX on I did not have the CDROM
> drivers, so I went on the internet and downloaded it and their
> installation said I had to, anyway the CDROM worked. When I
> booted it to C: drive I typed in D: Setup and installed windows
> 95 with no problems loading or lockups, nothing, went great.
> Windows works great but now I can only read the CDROM. When I try
> to setup something from the CDROM it says it can't find the
> SETUP.EXE. In device manager the hard drive controllers say
> Standard Bus Mastering IDE Hard Disk Controller with a yellow

     Are you still loading the DOS drivers for the CDROM? I have seen DOS
drivers cause so many problems in win95 I lost count. TTYL

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