Q: Hi guys, I
I trying out a new second hand comp, PIII 500Mhz. I had to install h / disk, floppy or CD-ROM, bcos they are missing. I used my ancient win95 boot disk, I actually win95 and Linux on board. So I got the usual stuff, Fdisk the h / d and formatting. Next step plan to load o / s. So boot to A:, then change to D: to check the cdrom is reading the CD. Problem is, D: displays the message “Invalid drive specification” like all the letters from. So the cdrom is not recognized, but the BIOS reads it correctly as a LG ATAPI CD-ROM as a master on the second IDE slot, that is what it is. Can someone please tell me what I can do. I know the CD works cos I had from my other computer, the cables are correctly installed, etc etc, and I changed the boot order in the BIOS many times to try to sort the problem from there. I also tryed with my win98 startup disk, the function “start computer with cdrom support”, but it gives me the message “no drives found” and stops the loading of the driver (MSCD001) 0.
Her to you because I am of the ideas, not always with all my troubleshooting.
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Re:just a thought but when you use a win 98 boot disk it will change your drive letter of the cd-rom. this is because of the ram drive using a drive letter. so if your drive was d it may now be e
Re:Did you check the jumper on the back of the CD-ROM to make sure it's set as "Master"?
Re:Did you check the jumper on the back of the CD-ROM to make sure it's set as "Master"?
Re:Pull the HD, stick in another computer.
Format the drive with the 'copy system files' option checked, set it as active. Copy the win98 folder from the Windows 98 CD to the HD.
Put back in original computer. Shoudl boot to a DOS C:\ prompt, type:
cd win98
setup
That will run Win98 setup, should be good from there. That is all if you have a second comptuer obviosly…
Re:Have you tried to just boot from CDRom and install Windows that way?
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