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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
- have a similar situation. i have formatted and partitioned a laptop , i
have both the external floppy and cd drive units, but while the floppy drive is hooked up with the bootdisk in it, it can't recognize, or find, a cd drive on the laptop, so ultimately i can not run the win98 install disk i have. the lap top does not have the driver installed for the cd drive. what can i do to get the cd drive working when hooked up. thanks for any info. "xskarmah" wrote in message ... I got a laptop free and wanted to install 98 on it, a clean install for my nephew. I burned a bootcd, and managed to format and partition it, my trouble starts because I dont have another disk drive to put the iso I have in, I only have the one drive, the laptop does not have a Floppy drive. Any suggestions? Whenever I try and use any setup commands I get invalid media trying to read disk |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
Have you checked the laptop manufacturer's www site for drivers and an
installation procedure for the CD in DOS? The usual procedure is to prepare the hard drive for booting to DOS with CD support using the floppy, then do the install from the CD (or the CD copied to the hard drive) after booting to the hard drive with the CD drive connected. If the CD is a third party product such as USB then it gets a bit trickier. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... - have a similar situation. i have formatted and partitioned a laptop , i have both the external floppy and cd drive units, but while the floppy drive is hooked up with the bootdisk in it, it can't recognize, or find, a cd drive on the laptop, so ultimately i can not run the win98 install disk i have. the lap top does not have the driver installed for the cd drive. what can i do to get the cd drive working when hooked up. thanks for any info. |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
thanks for reply.
when bootdisk starts screen asks to choose if i want cd support. i choose yes and when bootdisk finishes screen states MCD001 not found. so when i hook up cd module it is never found on laptop. dell site has cd drivers, but when copied onto floppy and floppy put in laptop module, can't get it to load in dos. to laptop "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Have you checked the laptop manufacturer's www site for drivers and an installation procedure for the CD in DOS? The usual procedure is to prepare the hard drive for booting to DOS with CD support using the floppy, then do the install from the CD (or the CD copied to the hard drive) after booting to the hard drive with the CD drive connected. If the CD is a third party product such as USB then it gets a bit trickier. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... - have a similar situation. i have formatted and partitioned a laptop , i have both the external floppy and cd drive units, but while the floppy drive is hooked up with the bootdisk in it, it can't recognize, or find, a cd drive on the laptop, so ultimately i can not run the win98 install disk i have. the lap top does not have the driver installed for the cd drive. what can i do to get the cd drive working when hooked up. thanks for any info. |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
Which bootdisk are you referring to? If it's the floppy, that won't work,
even though it seems the floppy has the right files on it. The CD drivers will not load properly if the CD drive isn't connected. If your laptop allows booting from CD, then you can use your CD writing software on the desktop machine to make a bootable DOS emergency startup CD using any of the DOS or W98 startup disks available at bootdisk.com. Otherwise, you will need to set up the hard disk as bootable, with the required commands to install the CD drivers, then connect the CD drive and boot to the hard disk. There's a description he http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajgd.html Note that your manufacturer may specify something other than the OAKCD*.SYS for the CD driver file - you may need to alter these references to suit. Also, the site uses the name MSCD001 for the CD device name, whereas others use MSCD0001 - it doesn't matter what you use, but it is critical that you are consistent. If you are already booting to the hard disk with the CD drive connected and you are getting that message, then the CD drivers are not loading properly. Watch the boot process very carefully to see the error message that is occurring before the MSCDxx not found message. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... thanks for reply. when bootdisk starts screen asks to choose if i want cd support. i choose yes and when bootdisk finishes screen states MCD001 not found. so when i hook up cd module it is never found on laptop. dell site has cd drivers, but when copied onto floppy and floppy put in laptop module, can't get it to load in dos. to laptop |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
yes i was using a floppy bootdisk for win98. that was the operating system
that was last on the laptop and the one i have a cd for reinstalling. understood. i will try that this evening. i will get the info on the floppy boot to a cd and change the laptop bios to load the cd module first at startup and see how it goes. -- i might be back! thank you jeff. "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Which bootdisk are you referring to? If it's the floppy, that won't work, even though it seems the floppy has the right files on it. The CD drivers will not load properly if the CD drive isn't connected. If your laptop allows booting from CD, then you can use your CD writing software on the desktop machine to make a bootable DOS emergency startup CD using any of the DOS or W98 startup disks available at bootdisk.com. Otherwise, you will need to set up the hard disk as bootable, with the required commands to install the CD drivers, then connect the CD drive and boot to the hard disk. There's a description he http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajgd.html Note that your manufacturer may specify something other than the OAKCD*.SYS for the CD driver file - you may need to alter these references to suit. Also, the site uses the name MSCD001 for the CD device name, whereas others use MSCD0001 - it doesn't matter what you use, but it is critical that you are consistent. If you are already booting to the hard disk with the CD drive connected and you are getting that message, then the CD drivers are not loading properly. Watch the boot process very carefully to see the error message that is occurring before the MSCDxx not found message. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... thanks for reply. when bootdisk starts screen asks to choose if i want cd support. i choose yes and when bootdisk finishes screen states MCD001 not found. so when i hook up cd module it is never found on laptop. dell site has cd drivers, but when copied onto floppy and floppy put in laptop module, can't get it to load in dos. to laptop |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
jeff,
that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the instructions were perfect. thanks again "pemo" wrote in message ... yes i was using a floppy bootdisk for win98. that was the operating system that was last on the laptop and the one i have a cd for reinstalling. understood. i will try that this evening. i will get the info on the floppy boot to a cd and change the laptop bios to load the cd module first at startup and see how it goes. -- i might be back! thank you jeff. "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Which bootdisk are you referring to? If it's the floppy, that won't work, even though it seems the floppy has the right files on it. The CD drivers will not load properly if the CD drive isn't connected. If your laptop allows booting from CD, then you can use your CD writing software on the desktop machine to make a bootable DOS emergency startup CD using any of the DOS or W98 startup disks available at bootdisk.com. Otherwise, you will need to set up the hard disk as bootable, with the required commands to install the CD drivers, then connect the CD drive and boot to the hard disk. There's a description he http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajgd.html Note that your manufacturer may specify something other than the OAKCD*.SYS for the CD driver file - you may need to alter these references to suit. Also, the site uses the name MSCD001 for the CD device name, whereas others use MSCD0001 - it doesn't matter what you use, but it is critical that you are consistent. If you are already booting to the hard disk with the CD drive connected and you are getting that message, then the CD drivers are not loading properly. Watch the boot process very carefully to see the error message that is occurring before the MSCDxx not found message. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... thanks for reply. when bootdisk starts screen asks to choose if i want cd support. i choose yes and when bootdisk finishes screen states MCD001 not found. so when i hook up cd module it is never found on laptop. dell site has cd drivers, but when copied onto floppy and floppy put in laptop module, can't get it to load in dos. to laptop |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out.
-- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... jeff, that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the instructions were perfect. thanks again |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
If you don't mind, Jeff, just so I'm sure what's what. This laptop could not
boot from the CD drive, but could boot from the interchangeable floppy drive? So sufficient stuff had to be done from the floppy boot to make the HD bootable with CDROM support? Or were bootable CD solutions viable, just not as convenient? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... jeff, that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the instructions were perfect. thanks again |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
the laptop could boot from the floppy, but while the floppy module was hooked up the cd module could not be, so when it came time to switch to the cd module to load the win98 program the laptop had not been able to recognize the cd module. i did not have a boot disk made on a cd. i chose to take the path of the walkthru and use the floppy boot disk i had, and then install from the win98 cd after. never tried if the laptop could have booted from a cd bootdisk, after i began reading the walkthru, i felt it was an option i could handle, so i never burned a boot cd. "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you don't mind, Jeff, just so I'm sure what's what. This laptop could not boot from the CD drive, but could boot from the interchangeable floppy drive? So sufficient stuff had to be done from the floppy boot to make the HD bootable with CDROM support? Or were bootable CD solutions viable, just not as convenient? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... jeff, that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the instructions were perfect. thanks again |
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having trouble installing win98 on a laptop with no os
Thanks...
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "pemo" wrote in message ... the laptop could boot from the floppy, but while the floppy module was hooked up the cd module could not be, so when it came time to switch to the cd module to load the win98 program the laptop had not been able to recognize the cd module. i did not have a boot disk made on a cd. i chose to take the path of the walkthru and use the floppy boot disk i had, and then install from the win98 cd after. never tried if the laptop could have booted from a cd bootdisk, after i began reading the walkthru, i felt it was an option i could handle, so i never burned a boot cd. "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you don't mind, Jeff, just so I'm sure what's what. This laptop could not boot from the CD drive, but could boot from the interchangeable floppy drive? So sufficient stuff had to be done from the floppy boot to make the HD bootable with CDROM support? Or were bootable CD solutions viable, just not as convenient? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "pemo" wrote in message ... jeff, that did it. the link to the description /walk-thru, and the instructions were perfect. thanks again |
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