Re: Quickie CD Driver(s) question

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From: Bounty Bob (BountyBob_at_baesystems.company)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:50:13 +0100

Yeah, I think I'm OK then. My BIOS "is" set to boot from CD. If I have my
Win2k CD in the drive it will AutoRun. I always assumed that, despite
having the boot order set to CD then HD, the BIOS would read driver
information from the HD if it couldn't find a CD Rom. So how, if the HD is
freshly formatted, does my PC know how to read from the CD? Have CD Rom's
been standardised so that a default driver stored within the BIOS (I guess)
can find and read any modern CD Rom?

XMan <XMan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ONQvFFJHEHA.3564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Ok if your CD drive will allow you to boot from it then there is no
issue -
> you may need to have a look at the boot order in BIOS to make sure it's
> before the hard drive.
>
> Boot from CD - The text based setup will start - you can opt to delete the
> partition then recreate a new boot partition. Setup will copy enough files
> on to make the partition bootable and bobs your uncle.
>
> If the system will not boot from the CD drive then you will need something
> like a win98 recovery diskette that will boot DOS and load the OAK CD rom
> drivers and MSCDEX. Then you can run setup from the CD
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Mike
> "Bounty Bob" <BountyBob@baesystems.company> wrote in message
> news:4073d0be$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net...
> > Hiya,
> >
> > Just a quick question about CD Drivers.
> >
> > I want to format my hard drive and reinstall Windows 2000 Pro (drastic I
> > know, but after 2 months of battling with problems - initially caused by
> > viruses before I got my firewall - it seems to be the easiest option).
> >
> > I know from reading some of these posts that I can begin the CD setup
and
> > delete the existing partition. However if the partition is deleted and
I
> > restart the PC, how does it know how to read the CD?
> >
> > Bear in mind that the last OS I installed was Win95 where I had to copy
> the
> > CD drivers onto a floppy. Then boot from the floppy to install the
> drivers
> > before I could run the setup on the CD. That's probably old-hat now and
> CD
> > interfaces are standardised, dunno, that's why I'm asking ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
>
>

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