help needed reinstalling windows. (cdrom) ???

[honeyf24]

help needed ??? right i have a old p100 pc... windows 98 can go on as we did a format but thats where the trouble began.. format went ok i know it was done correctly as done it a billion times before , but when we try and reinstall windows it won't let me.. i have tryed allsorts of startup disks , but it won't find a cdrom.. the cdrom is sent up fine it worked fine when windows 98 was previously installed, i got the cdrom driver from the net it was the correct one but kept saying some sort of problem with mscdex... (mscdoo1) missing etc... and i can boot from cd as well it gets to the screen start windows 98 setup gos past that but when it loads the first part (dos writing) it says something about oemd001 or something like that it then says no drives found installation aborted then continiues gets to the A:\ screen and thats it we can't do nothing it when you try and type the cdrom drive it says not there basically.... its getting a bit silly now.... so if anyone can help it will be much appreciated thanyou from Ann

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Hi and welcome to PCG forums.

I like the 98SE boot floppy for anything 9x. It has CD drivers on it. Try This one (http://www.drd.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi?FileID=5124) Make sure you write protect it after you D/L it.

Can you try going into BIOS to see if your CD-ROM is being detected?

[Sylvander]

If you experience problems read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q188127&

If you want to go further read these:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q190303&
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q135174

Print them and read at leisure.

[James Bond 007]

Well,is it possible that you lense on your CD is dusty giveing an intemitent read problem?Or From the dos Startup menue did you install the necessary driver components.From this menue you will see by pressing Shift F-8 this will install the necessary drivers (most likely you will answer yes to all the questions).When finished reboot to the Biose (I assume you know how to do this)Now Set the computer to boot from the CD (you will have to set this back to IDO ,thats your hard drive when finished installing Windows.Try soft booting if that doesn't work try hard booting by turning the power completely off.