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Solved: formatted dell laptop, no cdrom detected

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rodeogirl

Discussion Starter · Apr 8, 2004

Hi I have a dell lattiuted cpi with swappable drives. I formatted the hard drive to put windows 2000 on it, but it will not see cd drive. I made a bootdisk(98se) and booted it without cdrom support and tried to load something called cdromsetup and mscdex.exe and everytime i do, it says please insert disk setupa: or setupb: What in the world did I do? I know that I need the cdrom driver loaded but How?
Thanks for any help.

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dogbonz

· #16 · Apr 9, 2004

The win98 startup disk should load the CD-Rom drivers by itself.

After that loads, use the Win2000 CD to install the OS.

Should be no prob.

-Dogbonz

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