What are the files? Did you download them as a zip file? If so try just copying the zip file onto CD and using pkunzip.exe under DOS to extract it.

Its also a good idea to remove the read-only attribute when you've copied files from CD under DOS. Use this command:
attrib -r *.*

Thanks. Its vesa drivers for a SPEA V7-MIRAGE I downloaded them from the driver section on this site as part of SPEA MediaGallery 05 95 complete driver cd. It downloaded in a rar file can i get a rar unpacker for dos?

Last RAR for MS-DOS: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarx393.exe
About the renaming: the iso 9660 standard for the names - uppercase letters, underline and dot? no spaces. So - of course "-" was replaced by "_".

Thanks, I just tried using rar and unpacking them on the old pc but i get the DISK.ID error still. It really wants to be run from a cd i guess.

How can I burn the rar files to a cd with out changing the - to a _ ?

can't you do a subst ? it might search in the root of a drive for that DISK.ID file

That last thing did it I had no idea dos had this feature. Thanks alot guys each suggestion helped towards fixing the problem. I wasn’t expecting to get responses so quickly. The installer now works and the driver is installed. Plus I learned some new stuff. 😎