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Solved: formatted dell laptop, no cdrom detected

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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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Well I just got through and It has loaded windows me again. I have learned a lot about dos through this and laptops/formatting. Is this what you have to do ever time you format a laptop with swappable drives. Thanks sooooooooooooooooo much. You are a lifesaver kilowatt. I learn something everyday. I'm so glad you stopped in to have a look at my thread. I hope this helps someone else out in the future.
Thanks again.
:p Glad to see you got it sorted. While there are other ways to do a clean install on such laptops (especially newer ones), I've always found this method to be the easiest when you run into trouble.

As I said, I'm glad your up and running.

Take care.

Kilowatt
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