win98se format glitch - help please

[Eaglefeather]

I just reformatted my wifes PC and everything went well until the format was complete. At the A:/ prompt I typed in, cd d: to change the directory to the cd player so I could instal windows but it goes back to a:/ The following is what I get:

A:/cd d:
D:/

A:/

(it does the same for drive e: which is the dvd player)

Cannot figure out why it will not change to drive d: which is the CD

Prior to the format I made a brand new boot disk from tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd\fat32ebd.exe on the win98se CD to ensure I had the CD drivers on the bootdisk.

On boot up of the bootdisk it shows both the CD player and the DVD player, one as drive D and the other as drive E.

I have formatted this drive 3 times in the past three years without any problems. Does anyone know what may be wrong and how I can get it to change to the cd drive so I can instal windows. My wife is going to nag the hell out of me until her puter is running again. So, please, please, please.......help!

[TwoRails]

Drop the "cd" -- that just means "change directory"

You want to go to the drive itself, so just type in:

a:\>d:

and you'll go there

HTH

TwoRails

[Eaglefeather]

Thanks, will give it a try.

[glc]

Why don't you just boot with the Windows CD to install Windows?

[Mesaeus]

The effect you got is because cd (Change Directory) has a second function if you use a drive letter as parameter instead of a path, it will then show you the current directory of that drive. That's why it displayed "D:\" and why you got back on A:\

[palloco]

Not every win98se cd can boot and not every pc can boot from cd.