help with my 166

[kmad]

Hey, I formatted my drive on my 166.. and i have win 98 on a disk and i want to hook it up.. i start up, go into dos, hit d:/ , then hit setup and it says CD ROM not found or some **** like that.. how do i fix it,

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

You do not have the cd-rom drivers installed on the computer. Generally, most installations will run automatically when the BIOS starts up. You may need a special disk to run the install, not sure on where you can get the disk, I'm pretty sure starlifter should know or you could try a search engine.

 

[kmad]

nah i opened up my computer and i forgot to attach it to the ide drive lol

problem solved

 

[kmad]

New problem, I discovered that I formatted the disk including the system files, and it won't let me reformat /s from the boot disk, and I need to hook up the drivers for the CD rom.. would it work if I boot with the boot disk, take it out, and put in the floppy with the CDROM drivers?

 

[Pillager]

Can you set BIOS to boot from CD on your machine?

 

[oryx]

Kmad
Assuming you are booting to a DOS prompt, you need to load the CDROM driver in the config.sys file which will get loaded when you boot. Booting from the HD, then inserting the floppy, isn't going to load the drivers. They have to be in memory.

 

[Sodapop]

Originally posted by kmad
New problem, I discovered that I formatted the disk including the system files, and it won't let me reformat /s from the boot disk, and I need to hook up the drivers for the CD rom.. would it work if I boot with the boot disk, take it out, and put in the floppy with the CDROM drivers?

Yeah it will work. The boot disk from windows create a RAMDrive with every standard programs, like scandisk, fdisk etc. So after the boot disc has been used for booting it's useless, so yes, you can install the cd-rom drive.

 

[kmad]

okay I'm having trouble figuring out what brand my CD ROM is.. it doesn't have any company names or anything. Also where on it would I find what build it is?

 

[kundor]

A standard win98 boot disk includes generic cd drivers, but it usually assigns some crazy letter like r: to the drive.

 

[Sodapop]

Actually, the boot disc tends to give the ramdrive the first letter available after the C: If you have a d: drive, the ramdrive will be loaded as e:, if you have something already on e:, it will go to f: etc... Now, the cd was surely manufactured by some company. There is always a warning on a cd-rom drive (if you open the comp that is) with the technical infos including the manufacturer, the speed and saying that it is a class X laser device or something like that. So open the comp, and take a look there. Because if it isn't supported by a windows boot disc, then you'll have to find the drivers somewhere else.

But the easiest way would still be to change the bios setting to make the comp boot from the cd, which would run the install automaticly, though windows 98 gave me problems with that since it stopped to recognize my cd after the first reboot. I didn't have any problems with that kind of things with linux. The main thing with win98 is the rebooting during the install.

So my suggestion is to try to change the bios settings to boot from the cd. If you can't or if win98 bugs when you get to the rebooting, then you'll have to find yourself cd drivers on the internet site of the manufacturer.

Edit : Almost forgot. Is the comp you are running now using win98 as well? If so, create a boot disc on this comp and just boot from that one on the other. It worked from my athlon 900 to my pentium 133

 

[kundor]

I didn't mean the ramdrive, I mean the bootdisk tends to assign r: to the cd drive...at least it does for me.

 

[ainwood]

The win '98 (SE was it?) boot disk that includes the standard drivers on it was a great idea at the time. The impressive thing was that all the drivers fitted on a 1.44 MB floppy.

It used to be a real PITA to install DOS or similar first, just to load the drivers to let you install windows.