Thank you keenmaster486! After the installation of DOS, I went straight to setting up Windows 98SE. A wizard came up during installation to remove old drivers, I pressed cancel and now the laptop recognizes the cd drive! Hooray!!! (Oh and now I can spell recognize properly after having to spell it …

It could be you've got "USB legacy emulation" turned off in the bios. Or you could try a different USB drive, not all of them are compatible... It should show up as drive E: And for the DOS 7.1 thing, I didn't know there was a bootleg FreeDOS rebranded as 7.1 out there. I guess I'd better do some …

OK, since you've installed DOS 7.1 successfully using the full installer instead of the manual install, you can go ahead and skip all the way to step 5 of my post about installing Windows 98 (i.e., the step with "Reboot with the USB flash drive"). When xcopy gives you a prompt about "file or …

I reinstalled using full install. I think it fixed the CD-ROM driver. Now I can use D: in the command., fdisk is usable too now. I went to fdisk and it said there was already a DOS partition w/ FAT32. I am on step 4 now, dvd drive seems to work now 4. Now run the command "sys a: c:". (if this …

I've reinstalled MS-DOS 7.1 w/ an add-on which is a graphic vision file manager. This is what it looks like. I am not used to using a computer without a mouse Filename 20160404_204158[1].jpg File size 1.51 MiB Views 1184 views Filename 20160404_204152[1].jpg File size 1.28 MiB Views 1184 views …

DOS 7.1 must be different... Because it's not real. It's bootleg. It's fake. It's misleading. Should I use a different version then? DOS 7.10 apparently can't do fdisk and won't recognize the DVD-RW drive (CD-RW that can only read DVD). But I'm unsure what else to use if not DOS 7.10, DOS 6.22? (No …

OK... I actually haven't used the DOS 7.1 CD install disk, I just always use the floppy disk... Do you have the floppy drive module for this laptop? In that case it would be easier. Otherwise you can do this: (somebody who knows how this disk works please demonstrate a more efficient way...) This …

I'm stuck on step 3... How do I install CD rom drivers for DOS?

Thank you so much! I can't thank you enough keenmaster!!! So little people know how to do this >.< I'm getting a headache from this...I'm so new to DOS and don't really know how to install those drivers... Why can't this stupid computer just recognize my dvd drive x_X Am I supposed to install the …

I'm kinda new to DOS...I am currently installing 7.1. I have one issue: How do I make DOS 7.10's option mark place on the Minimal DOS system? The enter key won't change it, do I have do press a keyboard combo? I think Windows 98 can have WPA2, there's a video on youtube and some wireless cardbus …

The DVD Drive is my only remaining problem besides my cardbus (Wireless Laptop Notebook Adapter) the model is Linksys Wireless-G WPC54G. After installing the utility software (Had to transfer it by flash drive since my DVD drive wouldn't work in WinME) I'm getting issues during bootup about the …

Well I've heard the Dell Notebook System Software can fix this issue but I don't know for sure. You can also try the Maximus Decim Native drivers (Before loading these I'd make a copy of your windows directory) http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/43605-maximus-decim-native-usb-drivers/?page=1 I'm also …

Do you have any ideas why a DVD player isn't being recognized? Thanks!

I'm choosing Windows 9x over XP for using certain applications, I don't really like to use virtual pc's. I just haven't had the best luck with virtual pc's...vmware doesn't like my computer for some reason and my other computer is too slow. I installed Windows 98 once, ME twice and the DVD drive …

All the drivers posted here were located through extensive google searching and vogons.org user JiaoTongNan, MSFN.org users PROBLYMCH3LD, stupendousyappi, Dell user Griz UK, Dell does not support Windows 98SE or Windows Me on this laptop model. DISCLAIMER: Both Windows 98SE and ME have been tested …