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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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A Hawk

· #4 · Apr 8, 2004

Try formatting again with the 2000 cd.You might have to change the first boot device to cd in bios first.Then reboot with the 2000 cd in the cdrom. If that don't work try doing fdisk and then format with the 98 boot disk then when it asks you if you want startup with cd rom support click yes and it should boot from the 2000 cd.

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