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Oh-oh...no CD drivers for fresh install
I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).
I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin blush. what now? Thanks! x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1 Terabyte per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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You don't need anything on the C drive to install Windows.
Create a startup floppy with CD drivers already installed by downloading a utility from www.bootdisk.com. If the supplied drivers aren't right for your machine (which is possible for a laptop) then you only have to replace one of the existing drivers with you special drivers. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) Geo wrote in message ... I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why). I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin blush. what now? Thanks! |
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Geo wrote in message ... I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why). I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin blush. what now? Thanks! Try google with Toshiba 430CDS windows setup as a search term? |
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Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 95b
boot disk. This uses DOS 7.0, which is sufficient for installing = Windows 98. Use the disk to start the laptop, type "copy /y a:\*.* c:\", then = "sys c:". Then remove the boot disk, insert your Windows 98 CD and restart the = laptop. The CD drive should be assigned drive letter "R:". Ben Geo wrote in message = ... I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why). =20 I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin blush. what now? Thanks! =20 =20 x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1 Terabyte per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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This scenario is similar to the problem I'm having, but with a desktop. The
generic drivers in startup disk won't work for CDROM running from sound card. From this last post, I'm not seeing where new drivers are installed. Post before said to replace existing drivers with specific drivers. How do I do that? "Ben Myers" wrote: Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 95b boot disk. This uses DOS 7.0, which is sufficient for installing Windows 98. Use the disk to start the laptop, type "copy /y a:\*.* c:\", then "sys c:". Then remove the boot disk, insert your Windows 98 CD and restart the laptop. The CD drive should be assigned drive letter "R:". Ben Geo wrote in message ... I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why). I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin blush. what now? Thanks! x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups x-- Access to over 1 Terabyte per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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The DOS drivers for your CD-ROM consists (usually) of a SYS file that is
copied to the disk then referenced from a line in CONFIG.SYS. The installation instructions provide the name of the driver file and the command for CONFIG.SYS. There will also be a command for MSCDEX, but you can ignore that because it's already included in the boot disk. To add the line to CONFIG.SYS just replace one of the existing device driver lines - the structure of the file is clear when you look at it. You need to use the device name (eg, MSCD0000) that is used in the existing CONFIG.SYS, not the one used for the example line in your CD-ROM installation instructions.. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "ssb" wrote in message ... This scenario is similar to the problem I'm having, but with a desktop. The generic drivers in startup disk won't work for CDROM running from sound card. From this last post, I'm not seeing where new drivers are installed. Post before said to replace existing drivers with specific drivers. How do I do that? |
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