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09-25-2003, 08:45 PM
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no cd drivers
ok, i'm working on my friends build... his floppy is dead, so that's out..
my goal is to get into DOS with cd-rom support. So i set it to boot to cd (win98se), which it does just fine. Then it offers me to boot to dos with cd-rom support... which is perfect cuz that's what i want. then it tells me that it can't load the drivers because there were no cd-rom drives found. and it puts me at an a:\ prompt (and there's no floppy, so I'm guessing that's a virtual drive in my memory.) but I can't access the cd drive after that... any ideas? |
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09-25-2003, 08:56 PM
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Just buy a $6 floppy drive to save yourself some time. If you dont want to buy one try going into the BIOS and setting the cd drive as the first boot device.
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09-25-2003, 09:47 PM
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if you don't want to spend $6 on a floppy (or spend the time to buy 1 or wait for shipping, etc.), try borrowing 1 from another system. floppies are everywhere.
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09-26-2003, 07:35 PM
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well... I'll try another floppy, but I am not sure it will help...
what I'm trying to do is upgrade my friends windows 98 to windows 98se using a 98se full version (not a huge jump) to do this I have to run setup on the cd from dos, but can't because I can't get it to load the drivers. |
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09-27-2003, 04:09 PM
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One question, why do you need to go into DOS? To load windows you just need to put in the 98se CD and it starts automaticly
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09-27-2003, 04:18 PM
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Does the cd work in 98 original?
. . . Gary [interesting that it detects & boots fine in POST, but not loading DOS . . . how old is it? Is it on a standard IDE connector? Usually, the generic drivers on the Win98se disk work fine for the average cd-drive. Too bad the floppy's a goner, you could try using a bootdisk.com disk as a double-check] [p.s. Blue G. just saw your post. yellowhut is using a full version disk, so he'll want to rename win.com before he runs the install. yellow-hut: you can actually try renaming the win.com file from the a: ("virtual" or "RAM-drive") prompt, and then start your over-the-top upgrade from the CD directly with a reboot] Last edited by GaryRouth; 09-27-2003 at 04:21 PM. |
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09-28-2003, 12:44 AM
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I had the ame problem, turned out the ide cable to the cdrom wasn't making full connection, so it wasn't "seeing" the drive.
I reconnected and rebooted and it loaded Win98. |
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