win98 drivers

[etphn23]

hey, i just installed win98se on my laptop and once i installed it, the setup showed me that i was missing some drivers and it wanted to copy them from a location.  at this time i didn't have th drivers so i just skipped the process, but now i got the drivers off the internet and put them on a floppy.  when i put the floppy in my laptop and go to move the file to the hard drive it doesn't show any of the files, it says they are hidden.  i put the files on the from a computer that is running windows me so that might be a problem but they're just ax,vxd,sys,etc. files and their not showing up when i pu the floppy on the laptop.


what can i do?

thanks,,thanks to you guys i have my laptop running you were really helpful,great site

[etphn23]

does anyone know what to do?

[2k_dummy]

When it wants a location, point it to your W98 CD.

[GX1_Man]

Are you sure these are WIn98 drivers?

[etphn23]

yes im sure,,,the cd drive is showing up as an unknown device in device manager andd isn't reconized in my computer

[GX1_Man]

Does the CD work otherwise? Is this a new occurrence? What preceded this difficulty?

[Fed]

Unhide the files.

[etphn23]

yes the cd still works,when i had win95 the drive showed up but it does tell me now that its missing drivers, so yes its a new occurence,and how do i unhide the files,if it matters any,they are on a floppy

[2k_dummy]

Boot to DOS or from a DOS window:

attrib a:\*.* -h

Be sure the floppy is in the drive.

[etphn23]

ok i'll try it

[Fed]

Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>View>Show hidden files & folders.

[etphn23]

it worked thank you