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Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers
I am in need of further assistance in bringing the above
system back to life after the Hard Drive was wiped. At this point I have succeeded only in getting a C: prompt after FDISK, FORMAT /S, & Partioning Drives. I have no problem reading the floppy A: drive. In order to install the OS I will need to install CD drivers. To install CD Drivers Do I need WINDOWS up and running. The drivers come from DELL in an extratable compressed file format. The generic drivers do not work. Must be DELL's proprietory mark. I have received an ERROR MESSAGES as follows: *NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND *DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND: MSCD001 NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED I would appreciate any advice what-so-ever. -----Original Message----- I am having difficulty loading WIN 95/98 OS to a used DELL Latitude CPx. The hard drive had been wiped and I am starting from new. Can anyone help with the sequencing of loading this? I have a WIN 98 Startup disk and the Operating System CD. I tried loading after booting with the startup disk and I am now at a C:/ prompt. It does not recognize the CD-ROM drive. If you are familiar with this particulr model it has the interchangeable CD-ROM and floppy disk drives. Thanks in advance! "Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers" |
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Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers
Didn't Dell give you a restore disk ?
"Dell" wrote in message ... I am in need of further assistance in bringing the above system back to life after the Hard Drive was wiped. At this point I have succeeded only in getting a C: prompt after FDISK, FORMAT /S, & Partioning Drives. I have no problem reading the floppy A: drive. In order to install the OS I will need to install CD drivers. To install CD Drivers Do I need WINDOWS up and running. The drivers come from DELL in an extratable compressed file format. The generic drivers do not work. Must be DELL's proprietory mark. I have received an ERROR MESSAGES as follows: *NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND *DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND: MSCD001 NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED I would appreciate any advice what-so-ever. -----Original Message----- I am having difficulty loading WIN 95/98 OS to a used DELL Latitude CPx. The hard drive had been wiped and I am starting from new. Can anyone help with the sequencing of loading this? I have a WIN 98 Startup disk and the Operating System CD. I tried loading after booting with the startup disk and I am now at a C:/ prompt. It does not recognize the CD-ROM drive. If you are familiar with this particulr model it has the interchangeable CD-ROM and floppy disk drives. Thanks in advance! "Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers" |
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Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers
"Dell" wrote: I am in need of further assistance in bringing the above system back to life after the Hard Drive was wiped. At this point I have succeeded only in getting a C: prompt after FDISK, FORMAT /S, & Partioning Drives. I have no problem reading the floppy A: drive. In order to install the OS I will need to install CD drivers. To install CD Drivers Do I need WINDOWS up and running. The drivers come from DELL in an extratable compressed file format. The generic drivers do not work. Must be DELL's proprietory mark. I have received an ERROR MESSAGES as follows: *NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND *DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND: MSCD001 NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED I would appreciate any advice what-so-ever. You're kidding - a generic Win98 boot floppy doesn't work?? I think yours is just like the CD drives I swap around between CP, CPi, and C600 systems, and they all work just fine from a Win98 boot floppy. Do you have both the floppy and CD drive installed at the same time (the floppy attached via cable to the parallel port)? The "no operating system" error suggests your problem is not really the CD driver, but I'm not sure why you're getting that *and* the "device driver not found" error. Are you booting from the floppy or the hard drive when you get that msg? |
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Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers
Start the computer with a boot floppy, type "fdisk /status",
press "Enter" and look for "C:" in the "Drv" column. If you don't see it, the boot drive probably needs to be partitioned (fdisk.exe) and formatted(format.com). http://support.microsoft.com:80/supp.../q255/8/67.asp Ben "Dell" wrote in message = ... I am in need of further assistance in bringing the above=20 system back to life after the Hard Drive was wiped. At=20 this point I have succeeded only in getting a C: prompt=20 after FDISK, FORMAT /S, & Partioning Drives. I have no=20 problem reading the floppy A: drive. =20 In order to install the OS I will need to install CD=20 drivers. To install CD Drivers Do I need WINDOWS up and=20 running. The drivers come from DELL in an extratable=20 compressed file format. The generic drivers do not work.=20 Must be DELL's proprietory mark. =20 I have received an ERROR MESSAGES as follows: =20 *NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND =20 *DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND: MSCD001 NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED =20 I would appreciate any advice what-so-ever. =20 -----Original Message----- I am having difficulty loading WIN 95/98 OS to a used DELL=20 Latitude CPx. The hard drive had been wiped and I am=20 starting from new. Can anyone help with the sequencing of=20 loading this? =20 I have a WIN 98 Startup disk and the Operating System CD. =20 I tried loading after booting with the startup disk and I=20 am now at a C:/ prompt. It does not recognize the CD-ROM=20 drive. =20 If you are familiar with this particulr model it has the=20 interchangeable CD-ROM and floppy disk drives. Thanks in=20 advance! "Loading WIN 95/98 OS To Dell Latitude CPx H CD Drivers" |
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