question on start up

6 Apr 2005 2:45 AM

Bacchus

Hi,

I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.

I just built this for him so I may be missing something.

Can someone help? thanks

6 Apr 2005 2:53 AM

Grinder

Bacchus wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
> not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.
>
> I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
>
> Can someone help? thanks

You need to load device drivers for the drive as well. You can find a
boot disc with CD support here:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

6 Apr 2005 3:04 AM

Bacchus

Is this not available on the boot up disk windows comes with?

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> Bacchus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it
is
> > not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the
floppy.
> >
> > I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
> >
> > Can someone help? thanks
>
> You need to load device drivers for the drive as well. You can find a
> boot disc with CD support here:
>
> http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

6 Apr 2005 3:36 AM

Grinder

Bacchus wrote:

> Is this [CDrom Drivers] not available on the boot up
> disk windows comes with?

I would think that the Win98 boot disk would include those drivers. The
link I provided has CDrom drivers for sure, though.

> still not working. I get this every time:
>
> CDR101: Not Reading Drive D

That's a bit bizarre, as the standard Win98 book disc creates a ramdisk
as drive D, and the drive loads as E.

Try creating a disk from the link below:

http://ephemeral-designs.com/downloads/boot98se.exe

6 Apr 2005 3:18 AM

Bacchus

still not working. I get this every time:

CDR101: Not Reading Drive D

--
Kevin Oye
Oye's Outlet
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Local: (416) 850-6972
Long Distance: 1-(800) 791-OYES (6937)
http://stores.ebay.ca/Oyes-Outlet
oyesout***@rogers.com

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> Bacchus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it
is
> > not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the
floppy.
> >
> > I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
> >
> > Can someone help? thanks
>
> You need to load device drivers for the drive as well. You can find a
> boot disc with CD support here:
>
> http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

6 Apr 2005 3:05 AM

Bacchus

Which one should I downlaod onto a floppy?

thanks

--
Kevin Oye
Oye's Outlet
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Local: (416) 850-6972
Long Distance: 1-(800) 791-OYES (6937)
http://stores.ebay.ca/Oyes-Outlet
oyesout***@rogers.com

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"Bacchus" <kdoye2***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
> not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.
>
> I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
>
> Can someone help? thanks
>
>
>
>

6 Apr 2005 2:09 PM

Veritech

maybe its a sign that you should go down the linux road
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"Bacchus" <kdoye2***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
> not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.
>
> I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
>
> Can someone help? thanks
>
>
>
>

6 Apr 2005 2:13 PM

kony

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:53 -0400, "Bacchus"
<kdoye2***@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
>not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.
>
>I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
>
>Can someone help? thanks
>
>
>

Just for a moment, forget about the floppy/drivers... If
the following seems ok then try moving the drive to another
IDE controller position.

Does the bios detect the drive correctly?
Is it jumpered correctly?
Do you have a western digital (or other) drive as the master
but it's jumpered as single instead of master (applies only
to a drive that has separate single and master jumper
settings)?

6 Apr 2005 4:50 PM

Mike Walsh

Forget the floppy and boot from the CD.

Bacchus wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load WIN 98 SE into my buddies PC and for some reason it is
> not readin the D drive which is his CD/DVD Rom. I booted from the floppy.
>
> I just built this for him so I may be missing something.
>
> Can someone help? thanks

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.