Help needed with getting a PC up and running

[joe-mamma]

My friend recently purchased a computer from a university garage sale and he took it home and found it has no windows and the cd rom isn't being recognised.I just need sugestions on how to reinstall the cd rom drive so he can load windows 9x, it's a sanyo cd rom and he supposedly found the right drivers off of the net. Any replies welcome.

Thanks

[pade]

get a windows 98 start up disk on floppy boot from that then format hard drive and start from a new clean hard drive. make sure the bois cmos reconizes the drive if not the cd rom could be up the duff make sure its connect with the right cables (ide etc.)if the bois reconizes it theres no need to open up the tower hope this helps you should be able to make a windows boot disk off your pc or any other pc must be win98 or newer win95 boot up disk does not have basic cd rom drivers .