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mikoto
12-02-2002, 06:50 PM
I am having quite a time finding a boot disk that will incorporate the folowing devices. I need to reformat the HDD of one of my office machines and reinstall its OS but the boot disks I try don't have scsi cd-rw drivers. I tried the utility on bootdisks.com and the "UBD". I have 'googled' like crazy, nothing useful to a relative noob. Just a bunch of stuff on how to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys files. I don't want to get into that unless there is no other way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have this CD-RW: Yamaha CRW8824s

I have this scsi adapter: Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI controller

Thank you in advance.

Tweaked!
12-02-2002, 07:20 PM
Which os are you trying this on? Or should I say, which format, fat32 or ntfs? W2k pro has scsi drivers in it's bootdisk I do believe:)

mikoto
12-02-2002, 08:38 PM
ACK!!!

unfortunately I have to use FAT32.

Long story, so I'll spare your eyes. Basically I have to use 98se for now.

Stangfrk
12-23-2002, 11:29 AM
Have you tried "www.bootdisk.com"? They have almost every system boot disks known to man. I d/l the 98se boot disk and it booted up my scsi cd-rw and my ide cd-rw just fine. Check them out.