Ok I need soem help. I built my own computer over the weekend and now I'm trying to get it all to work. Right now I'm still having troble installing Win98se. I only have the cd for it, not even sire if there are floppies for the Win 98, but yeah. I can't figure out how to get my computer to see my cd drive. Anyone know how?
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Jump to PostGenerally you would go into CMOS and tell it to boot to the CD first...
Some older equipment may not boot to the CD and would require a boot floppy with CD drivers...
Jump to PostGo into bios and detect Hard Drive if computer is old enought it will be there if its newer it will auto detect so skip that part , say yes to what it detects for bot primary and secondary ,save and exit .then get a win98 boot disk from
Jump to Postcaperjack has the right idea. You need to change the boot order in BIOS setup to make CD-ROM the first boot device.
If your copy of Windows 98 doesn't allow for booting from the CD (some don't) then you'll need a Windows 98 startup diskette to boot from, and …
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