Install Accessibility Options

Is it possible to install accessibility options from a floppy? i have the
disk etc. but i can only start windows in safe mode until i have
Accessibility Options installed, but i can't use my cd drive in safe mode, so
i'm stuck.

Can i install it from a floppy by copying the files from the cd or is there
an installer i can download from somewhere?

Thanks

Sean

Why can you only get into Safe Mode until Accessibility Options are
installed?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
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Is it possible to install accessibility options from a floppy? i have the
disk etc. but i can only start windows in safe mode until i have
Accessibility Options installed, but i can't use my cd drive in safe mode,
so
i'm stuck.

Can i install it from a floppy by copying the files from the cd or is
there
an installer i can download from somewhere?

Thanks

Sean

"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
...

Is it possible to install accessibility options from a floppy? i have the
disk etc. but i can only start windows in safe mode until i have
Accessibility Options installed, but i can't use my cd drive in safe mode,
so
i'm stuck.

Can i install it from a floppy by copying the files from the cd or is
there
an installer i can download from somewhere?

Boot DOS from your startup (instal) floppy.
This includes DOS drivers to enable CD access.

You can then use the DOS commands
C: ; C and colon logs you to C:
MD WINSET ; = Make Directory WINSET
XCOPY X:/WIN98/*.* C:/WIN ; copies subdir /WIN98 to C:/WINSET
; supposing X = letter for your CD drive

Other subdirectories on the CD that you may need are
/DRIVERS and /TOOLS

When you use /Add/Remove Programs /Windows Setup
to instal Accessibility options, you just use the
Browse button to redirect the software to
C:\WINSET\WIN98 to find the components.
(Half completed installation may start looking
at drive X which is unavailable in Safe Mode.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Correction to post below:
C: ; C and colon logs you to C:
MD WINSET ; = Make Directory WINSET
XCOPY X:/WIN98/*.* C:/WINSET ; copies subdir /WIN98 to C:/WINSET

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
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Is it possible to install accessibility options from a floppy? i have
the
disk etc. but i can only start windows in safe mode until i have
Accessibility Options installed, but i can't use my cd drive in safe
mode,
so
i'm stuck.

Can i install it from a floppy by copying the files from the cd or is
there
an installer i can download from somewhere?

Boot DOS from your startup (instal) floppy.
This includes DOS drivers to enable CD access.

You can then use the DOS commands
C: ; C and colon logs you to C:
MD WINSET ; = Make Directory WINSET
XCOPY X:/WIN98/*.* C:/WIN ; copies subdir /WIN98 to C:/WINSET
; supposing X = letter for your CD drive

Other subdirectories on the CD that you may need are
/DRIVERS and /TOOLS

When you use /Add/Remove Programs /Windows Setup
to instal Accessibility options, you just use the
Browse button to redirect the software to
C:\WINSET\WIN98 to find the components.
(Half completed installation may start looking
at drive X which is unavailable in Safe Mode.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

the xcopy command didn't work so i made 2 seperate folders called drivers and
win98 in the winset folder and used copy E:/win98/*.* C:/winset/win98
is there a reason xcopy didn't work?

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

Correction to post below:
C: ; C and colon logs you to C:
MD WINSET ; = Make Directory WINSET
XCOPY X:/WIN98/*.* C:/WINSET ; copies subdir /WIN98 to C:/WINSET

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
...
"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
...

Is it possible to install accessibility options from a floppy? i have
the
disk etc. but i can only start windows in safe mode until i have
Accessibility Options installed, but i can't use my cd drive in safe
mode,
so
i'm stuck.

Can i install it from a floppy by copying the files from the cd or is
there
an installer i can download from somewhere?

Boot DOS from your startup (instal) floppy.
This includes DOS drivers to enable CD access.

You can then use the DOS commands
C: ; C and colon logs you to C:
MD WINSET ; = Make Directory WINSET
XCOPY X:/WIN98/*.* C:/WIN ; copies subdir /WIN98 to C:/WINSET
; supposing X = letter for your CD drive

Other subdirectories on the CD that you may need are
/DRIVERS and /TOOLS

When you use /Add/Remove Programs /Windows Setup
to instal Accessibility options, you just use the
Browse button to redirect the software to
C:\WINSET\WIN98 to find the components.
(Half completed installation may start looking
at drive X which is unavailable in Safe Mode.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
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the xcopy command didn't work so i made 2 seperate folders called drivers
and
win98 in the winset folder and used copy E:/win98/*.* C:/winset/win98
is there a reason xcopy didn't work?

COPY is a DOS command function (i.e. part of
COMMAND.COM.) XCOPY.EXE is a standalone
programme. In your case XCOPY.EXE was not in
your DOS "environment" or filepath. If so we would
expect the DOS error message
"Bad command or file name."

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Thanks, i was wondering why it didn't work.

"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"rabbitkillrun" wrote in message
...

the xcopy command didn't work so i made 2 seperate folders called drivers
and
win98 in the winset folder and used copy E:/win98/*.* C:/winset/win98
is there a reason xcopy didn't work?

COPY is a DOS command function (i.e. part of
COMMAND.COM.) XCOPY.EXE is a standalone
programme. In your case XCOPY.EXE was not in
your DOS "environment" or filepath. If so we would
expect the DOS error message
"Bad command or file name."

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)