First thanks to all those who replied along witho Desmond Reid: Larry Koester, Will Stephenson and Jim Meager >I just upgrade and/or built a new sytem in the past months and that is the >same prol;em tha I had. >But I do know one thing. you need to have more information in your >autoexec.bat file and the config.sys. First you need to tell us what speed >hard dive you have and also who the manufacturer of the drive is and them >find the driver for that drive. You need to put the mscdex.exe file on the >boot disk. > >sample config.sys device=a:\ccd.sys /d:cdrom /p:260 /t:2 >sample autoexec.bat a:\mscdex.exe /d:cdrom > >I hope this helps some > >Desmond >> I am still trying to install Win95B from cd to: >> Acer AP5T TX mobo >> 32 mgs SDRAM >> Intel Pentium 100 cpu When i boot from floppy A:, i get: verifying dmi pool data Starting windows 95 UsDrives ide bus cd-rom device driver version 1.97 Unit 0 base address 170 drive 0 device version=tw240d 1.10 Using 32bits access Device driver name=cd003 cd-rom driver installed A:\>mscdex.exe Usage: mscedex [/e/k/s/v] [/d:<driver>... ] [/L:<letter>] [/M:<buffers>] What i have in config.sys Device=himem.sys Device=usdide.sys What i have in autoexec.bat is: mscdex.exe. When i ask for drive d:, i get invalid drive specification Now, i believe some of that info above is to be put in config.sys and/or autoexec.bat, but don't know exactly where.. This cd drive is a Usdrive 24x Thanks again --