Hi,

I've recently reformatted my hard drive on my old PC but I've formatted it in a way that the CD drive can not be accessed (Doh!). Is there any way that I can salvage the machine so that it can read my Windows CD or is the machine now knackered?

Cheers,

C h r e d g e.

Either boot with a floppy or CD that can access your CD ROM

Chredge:

Bob has a file on his website that will allow you to create a fully-bootable startup floppy disk which includes generic CDROM drivers and automatically assigns the letter "X" to the CDROM drive. I've used it several times for formatting and fdisking a hard drive and doing a fresh install of Windows 98SE.

Go here and click the "Windows 98 Boot Floppy" link. This will start the win98_img.exe file downloading. Save it somewhere on the hard drive. After it's been saved, insert a blank floppy disk in its drive, then double-click the saved file and allow it to extract its contents into the floppy disk. Once the extraction process is complete, you'll have a fully-bootable startup floppy disk.

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