laptop reinstall missing Mscd001

Looking at other messages, I see I'm not the only one to have had this
problem. Trying to install 98SE on an older laptop with one drive bay for
floppy and CD-ROM drives. I have used fdisk and format /s to prepare the HD,
and have a startup disk.

Following the advice of several here, I have copied the startup files to c:
and edited autoexec.bat to change 'a:' to 'c:' (it only occurred in one
place, in the PATH line, and not at all in the other *.bat file).

Now if I reboot with the CD drive in place, I get :
General failure reading drive A. Abort, retry, fail?
Abort or Fail brings up:
Bad command or file name....could not create a temporary drive for
diagnositc tools...may be because computer has less than minimum required
extended memory.

Replace the a: drive and reboot (or reboot after the sequence above with the
floppy drive still in place) and I get:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid CDROM device drivers selected

What am I doing wrong?

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:05:09 -0800, "who, me?" who,
wrote:

Looking at other messages, I see I'm not the only one to have had this
problem. Trying to install 98SE on an older laptop with one drive bay for
floppy and CD-ROM drives. I have used fdisk and format /s to prepare the HD,
and have a startup disk.

Following the advice of several here, I have copied the startup files to c:
and edited autoexec.bat to change 'a:' to 'c:' (it only occurred in one
place, in the PATH line, and not at all in the other *.bat file).

Now if I reboot with the CD drive in place, I get :
General failure reading drive A. Abort, retry, fail?
Abort or Fail brings up:
Bad command or file name....could not create a temporary drive for
diagnositc tools...may be because computer has less than minimum required
extended memory.

Replace the a: drive and reboot (or reboot after the sequence above with the
floppy drive still in place) and I get:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid CDROM device drivers selected

What am I doing wrong?

Try booting to Dos then put in the CD. You have the CDrom drivers on
C:\ so booting with the CD bypasses your files. If the drivers are
setup correctly on C:\ you should be able to access the CDrom after
booting to Dos Command Prompt.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

"Bill Watt" wrote:
Try booting to Dos then put in the CD. You have the CDrom drivers on
C:\ so booting with the CD bypasses your files. If the drivers are
setup correctly on C:\ you should be able to access the CDrom after
booting to Dos Command Prompt.

Already tried that; no CD drive is recognized.

"who, me?" who, wrote in message
...

"Bill Watt" wrote:
Try booting to Dos then put in the CD. You have the CDrom drivers on
C:\ so booting with the CD bypasses your files. If the drivers are
setup correctly on C:\ you should be able to access the CDrom after
booting to Dos Command Prompt.

Already tried that; no CD drive is recognized.

DOS and Windows use different drivers to set
up the CD drives. DOS drivers are on the boot
floppy you get from www.bootdisk.com (1 =
download the correct EXE file, 2 = execute it to write
multiple files to a blank floppy.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows
95b boot floppy. This uses DOS 7.0, which is sufficient for Windows=20
98 setup. Start the laptop with the boot floppy, type=20
"copy /y a:\*.* c:\", then type "sys c:". Shut down, remove the =
floppy
drive, install the CD drive and restart. Please note that the CD drive
may be assigned drive letter "R:".

Ben

"who, me?" who, wrote in message =
...
Looking at other messages, I see I'm not the only one to have had this =

problem. Trying to install 98SE on an older laptop with one drive bay =
for=20
floppy and CD-ROM drives. I have used fdisk and format /s to prepare =
the HD,=20
and have a startup disk.=20
=20
Following the advice of several here, I have copied the startup files =
to c:=20
and edited autoexec.bat to change 'a:' to 'c:' (it only occurred in =
one=20
place, in the PATH line, and not at all in the other *.bat file).=20
=20
Now if I reboot with the CD drive in place, I get :
General failure reading drive A. Abort, retry, fail?
Abort or Fail brings up:
Bad command or file name....could not create a temporary drive for=20
diagnositc tools...may be because computer has less than minimum =
required=20
extended memory.=20
=20
Replace the a: drive and reboot (or reboot after the sequence above =
with the=20
floppy drive still in place) and I get:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid CDROM device drivers =
selected
=20
What am I doing wrong?

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:21:08 -0800, "who, me?" who,
wrote:



"Bill Watt" wrote:
Try booting to Dos then put in the CD. You have the CDrom drivers on
C:\ so booting with the CD bypasses your files. If the drivers are
setup correctly on C:\ you should be able to access the CDrom after
booting to Dos Command Prompt.

Already tried that; no CD drive is recognized.

The CDrom drive letter may be one higher than normal due to a Ram
drive being created, ie: D: to E: etc. If you got the Startup
disk from www.bootdisk.com the drive letter may be R:

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/

"who, me?" who, schreef in bericht
...
Replace the a: drive and reboot (or reboot after the sequence above with
the
floppy drive still in place) and I get:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid CDROM device drivers
selected

What am I doing wrong?

The config.sys should have a line:
device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001
or
devicehigh=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001

The autoexec.bat should have a line:
c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /v
or
lh c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /v

In this example oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe are in the rootdirectory.
Maybe the cdrom-drive needs a driver different from oakcdrom..sys.

Now booting from hd (with cdrom-drive, without cdrom inserted) should be no
problem.

Grtz,

TR