im stuck in MSDOS

[ericandlucy]

I am trying to restore my mothers old pc it's an HP pavillion 7935 when I first turned it on it said "operating system not found" so I tried loading the OS from her new PC but it wouldnt read the cd drive. so i created a boot disk and that got me into DOS mode. this is where i am currently stuck I cant get it to read the cd drive and when i type C:\>DIR it lists 22 files @ 238k bytes w/ 821.47MB free its a 40GB drive so where is everything. I have tried several other commands but with my very basic knowledge of pc's i get confused please help I will be online trying to figure this out ,

[mshah007]

If remember correctly you need atapi.exe, a cd-rom device driver (sys file)and need to use the device command in autoexec.bat
e.g if device drive id mtmcdai.sys
lastdrive=z
device=c:\atapi\mtmcdai.sys /d:cddrv
c:\dos\mscdex.exe /d:cddrv

you can also set these options in config.sys

Or goto bootdisk.com and download a boot disk that does what you need

[JimP]

Hi, Read my answer in 98/ME. Jim