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Yes it runs fine on another pc.
G. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Yes I'm seeing that. However when I switch to the E drive and typ setup.exe I get a "CDR101: Not ready reading drive E. Abort, Retry, Fail." message. Gary "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Not sure about that. I can only assume it was working correctly when I got it. I guess I can take the bottom off the laptop and check it out. G. "Wolfram Nickl" wrote in message y.telekom.at... cdrom correctly installed - cabels? master/slave? When booting from the floppy with CD-ROM support, you should see the installation of the basic ATAPI drivers for the CD-ROM scroll up on the screen. AIRC, the word "OAK" appears on these lines of text. Do you see this text when booting from the floppy? You should boot from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive. After the boot completes, at the command prompt (A:\) type: E:\setup.exe[enter]. Q Does the CD mount OK on another computer? Can you read the files on another computer? Q |
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SOunds like a sick drive to me
"algae" wrote in message news:W7iEd.36127$6l.31811@pd7tw2no... Yes it runs fine on another pc. G. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Yes I'm seeing that. However when I switch to the E drive and typ setup.exe I get a "CDR101: Not ready reading drive E. Abort, Retry, Fail." message. Gary "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Not sure about that. I can only assume it was working correctly when I got it. I guess I can take the bottom off the laptop and check it out. G. "Wolfram Nickl" wrote in message y.telekom.at... cdrom correctly installed - cabels? master/slave? When booting from the floppy with CD-ROM support, you should see the installation of the basic ATAPI drivers for the CD-ROM scroll up on the screen. AIRC, the word "OAK" appears on these lines of text. Do you see this text when booting from the floppy? You should boot from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive. After the boot completes, at the command prompt (A:\) type: E:\setup.exe[enter]. Q Does the CD mount OK on another computer? Can you read the files on another computer? Q |
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Beginning to think that myself. Tom I haven't swaped out a cd rom (or
anything else for that matter) from a notebook. Is it a big deal? Also what about compatibilty with other cd rom drives? Tia for any info. Gary "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... SOunds like a sick drive to me "algae" wrote in message news:W7iEd.36127$6l.31811@pd7tw2no... Yes it runs fine on another pc. G. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Yes I'm seeing that. However when I switch to the E drive and typ setup.exe I get a "CDR101: Not ready reading drive E. Abort, Retry, Fail." message. Gary "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Not sure about that. I can only assume it was working correctly when I got it. I guess I can take the bottom off the laptop and check it out. G. "Wolfram Nickl" wrote in message y.telekom.at... cdrom correctly installed - cabels? master/slave? When booting from the floppy with CD-ROM support, you should see the installation of the basic ATAPI drivers for the CD-ROM scroll up on the screen. AIRC, the word "OAK" appears on these lines of text. Do you see this text when booting from the floppy? You should boot from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive. After the boot completes, at the command prompt (A:\) type: E:\setup.exe[enter]. Q Does the CD mount OK on another computer? Can you read the files on another computer? Q |
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Deep down inside, notebook CD-ROM drives are designed very similarly. Compaq,
HP, IBM, and the others all modify a stock CD-ROM drive with a plastic front bezel to match the notebook case and added brackets and widgets for the drive to fit inside the notebook chassis of their design. All this being said, you are best off to replace the CD-ROM drive with another made for the same model of notebook or another Compaq which uses the same drive. Replacement is usually not too hard, involving the release of some inside latch, removal of the old drive, snapping the new one in place. Consult the owner's manual for your model of notebook... Ben Myers On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:42:32 GMT, "algae" wrote: Beginning to think that myself. Tom I haven't swaped out a cd rom (or anything else for that matter) from a notebook. Is it a big deal? Also what about compatibilty with other cd rom drives? Tia for any info. Gary "Tom Scales" wrote in message . .. SOunds like a sick drive to me "algae" wrote in message news:W7iEd.36127$6l.31811@pd7tw2no... Yes it runs fine on another pc. G. "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Yes I'm seeing that. However when I switch to the E drive and typ setup.exe I get a "CDR101: Not ready reading drive E. Abort, Retry, Fail." message. Gary "Quaoar" wrote in message ... algae wrote: Not sure about that. I can only assume it was working correctly when I got it. I guess I can take the bottom off the laptop and check it out. G. "Wolfram Nickl" wrote in message y.telekom.at... cdrom correctly installed - cabels? master/slave? When booting from the floppy with CD-ROM support, you should see the installation of the basic ATAPI drivers for the CD-ROM scroll up on the screen. AIRC, the word "OAK" appears on these lines of text. Do you see this text when booting from the floppy? You should boot from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive. After the boot completes, at the command prompt (A:\) type: E:\setup.exe[enter]. Q Does the CD mount OK on another computer? Can you read the files on another computer? Q |
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"algae" wrote in message news:I50Ed.23383$8l.21759@pd7tw1no... Hi all, I'm helping a friend with her old Compaq Presario 1235. It was running Win 98 VERY slowly so I decided to reformat and reinstall Win 98 SE as it is probably loaded with spyware, etc. I formatted the drive, created a Win 98 SE bootdisk, booted to the floppy, and later set the bios to boot to the cd rom where I put the Win 98 SE Cd. Upon rebooting nothing is happening. The cd rom isn't spinning up and if I change directory within dos, I still can't get the machine to read from the cd rom. When I booted to the floppy I chose "boot with CD rom support". I figured this would go smoothly so I didn't give much thought to it prior to wiping the drive. Am I missing something here? Tia for any help. Gary During the boot sequence the screen displays what drive letter was assigned to the CD-ROM drive. It is usually one letter higher than usual because the boot disk creates a RAM drive between the last hard drive letter and the CD-ROM drive. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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Yep..it's drive E. However it won't read the cd..or any other cd...I tried
my Win 2000 cd and my Win XP cd. No dice. G. "Earl F. Parrish" wrote in message news:F3vEd.8799$ig7.2220@trnddc04... "algae" wrote in message news:I50Ed.23383$8l.21759@pd7tw1no... Hi all, I'm helping a friend with her old Compaq Presario 1235. It was running Win 98 VERY slowly so I decided to reformat and reinstall Win 98 SE as it is probably loaded with spyware, etc. I formatted the drive, created a Win 98 SE bootdisk, booted to the floppy, and later set the bios to boot to the cd rom where I put the Win 98 SE Cd. Upon rebooting nothing is happening. The cd rom isn't spinning up and if I change directory within dos, I still can't get the machine to read from the cd rom. When I booted to the floppy I chose "boot with CD rom support". I figured this would go smoothly so I didn't give much thought to it prior to wiping the drive. Am I missing something here? Tia for any help. Gary During the boot sequence the screen displays what drive letter was assigned to the CD-ROM drive. It is usually one letter higher than usual because the boot disk creates a RAM drive between the last hard drive letter and the CD-ROM drive. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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