How Can I Install A Driver For My CD-ROM On My Windows 98 OS On A Dell Inspiron 2650

[Can You Help Me Please]

I have an old computer with one key missing, but that's not the problem. I had xp on it at one point, but I decided to go back to 98 to play some old games. The only problem is that the computer reads from the drive at startup to install 98, but when I finally do get into Windows, the CD-Rom doesnt show up. I even tried add new hardware and I think it's a Matshita CD-RW UJDA330 - SM
Thats what it says in the bios anyway. I have a floppy drive, but I dont have a floppy drive on this computer to transfer the driver to the old one. I wanted to know if there is any way I could get the driver on there booting from startup

 

[little_me]

cd-roms never had drivers. what you need the driver for is most likely the old Pata/ide chipset, which by default only loads up one of the two pata ports. (max of two devices each, master and slave)

I could mention that windows 98 had old ms-dos still in bottom of it and you could get to command prompt by mashing F8 at start-up but... that wont help since said command prompt wont have extra drivers for the cd-drive. (I think it needed those, my memory is hazy on that old stuff though, it could be possible to add them by editing config.sys and autoexec.bat though)
It might still help though, after that it'd be all about copying the drivers from cd to hard disk and then installing it from windows.

 

[meaga1n]

MSCDEX seems to be the DOS CD-ROM driver... I wonder if you could install it in 98...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/135174