Caluser2000
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Absolutely. You'll need either a dos boot disk with cdrom support of cdrom drivers loaded from machines hard drive to start the installation process or be able to copy the installation folder to the hard drive.
The reason I suggested using a generic IDE drive as slave. It'll speed up the win95 installation process.The Sony CDU-31A is the 1X speed sibling of the Sony CDU-33A 2X speed. Both use the proprietary Sony (FDD cable like) CD-ROM interface.
Look at SONY173A.ZIP on the page I linked to.Thanks for letting me know about that site. I checked it out but it doesn't have a page on Sony drivers.
No luck with a spare CD-ROM so far. Found some old 3.5'' floppy disks with family photos saved on them in storage though so I could use a USB floppy drive to hopefully recover those as well. Additionally, I'm not sure how I could hook up a non-proprietary CD-ROM to the master drive on this machine as there are two hard drives installed and there isn't a third connector on that cable.
DUH! There isn't a third connector on that cable because the IDE interface can only handle two drives at a time.No luck with a spare CD-ROM so far. Found some old 3.5'' floppy disks with family photos saved on them in storage though so I could use a USB floppy drive to hopefully recover those as well. Additionally, I'm not sure how I could hook up a non-proprietary CD-ROM to the master drive on this machine as there are two hard drives installed and there isn't a third connector on that cable.