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| 394118 | 2005-10-07 04:37:00 | Having reformatted a HD, how do I load the driver for an Asus CRW-3212A CD RW drive, from the C prompt. I need to do this so that I can use the drive to load Windows. Any help would be appreciated. Ian G |
grantji (3847) | ||
| 394119 | 2005-10-07 04:42:00 | Is your computer very old and therefore cannot boot from a CD? If you wish to boot from the CD so that you can install your OS, you just need to change the boot order in the BIOS so that the CD drive is listed before the hard drive. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 394120 | 2005-10-07 04:47:00 | cd drivers are only required for useing with DOS. the driver on the boot disk should work tho there are others if your cd drive is an oddball. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 394121 | 2005-10-07 06:24:00 | Is your computer very old and therefore cannot boot from a CD? If you wish to boot from the CD so that you can install your OS, you just need to change the boot order in the BIOS so that the CD drive is listed before the hard drive. Thanks for the prompt reply. I understand about changing the BIOS at bootup, but don't understand how the CD drive can read the CD until such time as it has a driver installed. Bear in mind that at this point I will have just completed a full format of "C", so will have no OS installed. Last time I did this I had a manufacturers supplied CD, that seemed to include an executable operating at DOS level from which the CD driver was automaticaly installed. It included ASUSCD.SYS (a DOS/Win Driver), and INSTALL.EXE. Unfortuately I don't have this disk available and cannot find it on the manufacturers web site (ASUS). Any more ideas would be very welcomed indeed. Ian G |
grantji (3847) | ||
| 394122 | 2005-10-07 06:34:00 | What version of windows (if its windows), are you installing? 2000 and XP cds are bootable . Put the cd in boot from it, and it should say press a key . Press a key and it'll go to the setup screen, and install XP/2k from the cd . Press a key only once, or it'll go round in circles . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 394123 | 2005-10-07 06:37:00 | Dose this help. support.microsoft.com If not do a search through MS's Knowledge Base ( KB ). Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 394124 | 2005-10-07 06:47:00 | What version of windows (if its windows), are you installing? 2000 and XP cds are bootable . Put the cd in boot from it, and it should say press a key . Press a key and it'll go to the setup screen, and install XP/2k from the cd . Press a key only once, or it'll go round in circles . WIN 98N SE |
grantji (3847) | ||
| 394125 | 2005-10-07 06:50:00 | Dose this help. support.microsoft.com If not do a search through MS's Knowledge Base ( KB ). Trevor :) Thanks Tevor, but the reference is to XP. However I shall try the Microsoft knowledge base for WIN98 ME. Ian G |
grantji (3847) | ||
| 394126 | 2005-10-07 07:18:00 | Thanks Tevor, but the reference is to XP. However I shall try the Microsoft knowledge base for WIN98 ME. Ian G To All who responded to my query....many thanks for your input. I can now see how to deal with this. The Microsoft Knowledge base search on WINME identified that I need to load real mode drivers after the full format. I have managed to find these and can now see the way ahead. Again all thanks for your input. Ian G |
grantji (3847) | ||
| 394127 | 2005-10-07 07:53:00 | Or you could try a bootdisk http://www.bootdisk.com | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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