Cd-rom not working after format... mscdex?

[Dkay]

I just formatted an IBM Thinkpad and it is still swipped clean, nothing on the hdd, booting from a boot floopy.

It's been so long, and I can't remember what I need to do to get it to recognize the CD drive agian. I have tried booting with a 98 or XP cd and no luck... I still get invalid drive specification.

I am messing with MSCDEX right now but can't excatly remember what lines I need to add to config.sys or autoexec... etc.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks, Dave

[rangeral]

Which OS are you or want to install?

If its 98 get or make a bootdisk from another machine to format the drive plus when prompted select load with cdrom drivers. You can make one in add/remove programs or get one from bootdisk.com

[Dkay]

Okay I am trying the disk from bootdisk.com

haha I looked and I didn't even have an autoexec or config!!

ha dang I am so use to booting from the CD


Thanks for your help!

Will get back soon

-Dave

[AllGamer]

this will help

http://www.easydos.com/mscdex.html