Need driver for Compaq Laptop

I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea where I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

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The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom
"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message k.net...
I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called
Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the
external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea where
I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

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Bruce Whealton, Jr. MSW

Get published at Word Salad Poetry
Magazine and mo
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For some reason this driver won't download. Plus it's 1.82MB, so unless it
opens up into a couple floppies, it will be problematic to use. The system
does not have a cd player on it other than the external. But thanks for the
tip on the cd driver.
Bruce
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom
"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message k.net...
I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called
Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the
external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea
where
I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bruce Whealton, Jr. MSW

Get published at Word Salad Poetry
Magazine and mo
http://wordsalad.net/
The Angel of Death - Poetry by Jean Jones:
http://wordsalad.net/poetrybyjean/
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Do check the model numbers carefully as some models require real mode
only drivers. I've been trying to get an answer about a power supply from
them for a couple of days now.

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom
"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message k.net...
I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called
Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the
external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea
where
I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bruce Whealton, Jr. MSW

Get published at Word Salad Poetry
Magazine and mo
http://wordsalad.net/
The Angel of Death - Poetry by Jean Jones:
http://wordsalad.net/poetrybyjean/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You just download the EXE file and run it to install the driver. Without
it the CD will not work.

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Steve

"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message ink.net...
For some reason this driver won't download. Plus it's 1.82MB, so
unless it
opens up into a couple floppies, it will be problematic to use. The
system
does not have a cd player on it other than the external. But thanks
for the
tip on the cd driver.
Bruce
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom




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I assume the laptop is not online?
If so you try a couple of approaches.

1. Using WinZip or any similar program to create a disk spanning compressed
archive set of the file. If you are successful you will have a set of disk
that you can extract the file from onto the laptop. If the laptop does not
have an archiving/compression program, you can make the archive
self-extracting as well. otherwise you will need to load that program onto
the laptop to open the archive set.

2. Can you do a direct cable connect from the laptop to a machine that you
can download the file to and transfer it into the laptop that way. There
are a number of programs to do this (i.e. Laplink, etc.).

3. Can you connect the laptop to a network with a share partition you can
download the file to and then copy it to the laptop.

KC

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom
"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message k.net...
I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called
Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the
external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea
where
I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bruce Whealton, Jr. MSW

Get published at Word Salad Poetry
Magazine and mo
http://wordsalad.net/
The Angel of Death - Poetry by Jean Jones:
http://wordsalad.net/poetrybyjean/
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After thought from the back burner of my mind.

What about the basic DOS or 16 bit drivers? Some of those are small
enough to fit a floppy and once you get the drive to work you could have the
larger file burned to a CD and use that to copy them to the laptop hard
drive while in DOS. then you can boot to windows and run the driver
install.

KC

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
...
The drivers would be provided by Microsolutions, not Compaq.

One simple google search returned:

http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/

Tom
"Bruce Whealton, Jr MSW" wrote in
message k.net...
I have a Laptop. It's a Compaq
Armada 1130T, Pentium 120Mhz and it has an external CD drive called
Backpack
by Microsolutions. The system needs some drivers to recognize the
external
CD Drive. Obviously this is an older system. Anyone have any idea
where
I
could find the drivers to make this external CD drive work?
Thanks,
Bruce

--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bruce Whealton, Jr. MSW

Get published at Word Salad Poetry
Magazine and mo
http://wordsalad.net/
The Angel of Death - Poetry by Jean Jones:
http://wordsalad.net/poetrybyjean/
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