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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard
Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM
Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy 142919-04 In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
Hi there,
Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
www.zdnet.com has many of the updates that used to be available
when Windows 95 was yje new kid on the block. Under downloads the keyword is Internet explorer If you could upgrade to Windows 98 somehow You would be able to used the same link to get the newest versions of IE which also includes many fixes seen in Windows XP It is never going to be top of the line In fact top of the line today is short lived term If I knew exactly what you had on your computer I could give further advice "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:QfWvf.40907$QW2.17152@dukeread08... Hi there, Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
Cool. I'll check out the site. I do have another PB that I just got up and
running and it has Win98. I have the restore disk for that one but I don't think I can use it to upgrade to 98 can I? Yea, it's a dinasour compared to now. Here are what the 2 systems have on them. Not sure what info you needed. Any suggestions would be great! Thank you! Windows 95 Packard Bell Model A940-TWR Pentium 233 Processor 32 mb ram Has 2 sticks though? CD Rom ATAPI 52x CD Writer Hewlett Packard 8100 Netgear FA310 TX Ethernet Adapter Windows 98 Packard Bell Model CPTR 730 M II 266 Processor 64 mb Ram 2 sticks CD Rom Liteon LTN301 CD Writer Sony CRX140E Netgear FA311 Ethernet Adapter "metronid" wrote in message ... www.zdnet.com has many of the updates that used to be available when Windows 95 was yje new kid on the block. Under downloads the keyword is Internet explorer If you could upgrade to Windows 98 somehow You would be able to used the same link to get the newest versions of IE which also includes many fixes seen in Windows XP It is never going to be top of the line In fact top of the line today is short lived term If I knew exactly what you had on your computer I could give further advice "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:QfWvf.40907$QW2.17152@dukeread08... Hi there, Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
The information you supplied is great
It looks as though windows 98 will work Can you use your other master CD Maybe. Originally PB used the bios to allow the Master CD to work. Somewhere down the road the went to the tattoo method. Windows 98 was the step Was it all their Windows 98 disks I do not know I need you to do a few more things I need the Msater CD # on each unit The floppy# The serial number on each unit I need you take the Windows 98 Cd and do the following Under windows search for any files called cab I am looking for the Windows 98 Cabs I would like to see a little more memory on the Windows 95 Unit for an upgrade If you do have the cabs on the Master CD there is a little trick to use it as an upgrade CD "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:nF0wf.40935$QW2.15470@dukeread08... Cool. I'll check out the site. I do have another PB that I just got up and running and it has Win98. I have the restore disk for that one but I don't think I can use it to upgrade to 98 can I? Yea, it's a dinasour compared to now. Here are what the 2 systems have on them. Not sure what info you needed. Any suggestions would be great! Thank you! Windows 95 Packard Bell Model A940-TWR Pentium 233 Processor 32 mb ram Has 2 sticks though? CD Rom ATAPI 52x CD Writer Hewlett Packard 8100 Netgear FA310 TX Ethernet Adapter Windows 98 Packard Bell Model CPTR 730 M II 266 Processor 64 mb Ram 2 sticks CD Rom Liteon LTN301 CD Writer Sony CRX140E Netgear FA311 Ethernet Adapter "metronid" wrote in message ... www.zdnet.com has many of the updates that used to be available when Windows 95 was yje new kid on the block. Under downloads the keyword is Internet explorer If you could upgrade to Windows 98 somehow You would be able to used the same link to get the newest versions of IE which also includes many fixes seen in Windows XP It is never going to be top of the line In fact top of the line today is short lived term If I knew exactly what you had on your computer I could give further advice "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:QfWvf.40907$QW2.17152@dukeread08... Hi there, Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
Hi there,
Sorry for the late reply. Didn't see the cab file you mentioned but I did put recovery disk & diskette from the Win 98 machine and put it in the Win 95 machine and it let me upgrade to Win 98. Just had to use the same product key. I was thinking I had tried that before (a good while back) and it wouldn't let me but I was able to do it this time. I also found out the CD Roms in both machines are not the Roms that came with them. Both were replace at one point. I restored both computers as they were when they were new but it had a lot of stuff I'll never use (Kiddo Net, etc) and realized I could choose the option to install Windows only so I did that to both systems. There are still a few icons on the desktop that I believe I will never use ( Install Fax, Packard Bell Internet access, etc). Most are located in at C:\PROGRA~1.... I think I could have opted for the Custom install of Windows and chose not to install these but there were some selections there I was unsure of so I just did the regular install. I got IE 6 and did the Windows updates for both. Seem to be running fine, no more script errors. The # for the Master CD is 172200-03 and the floppy is BPCS# 142938-04. Any more tweaking suggestions just lmk. Thank you! "metronid" wrote in message . .. The information you supplied is great It looks as though windows 98 will work Can you use your other master CD Maybe. Originally PB used the bios to allow the Master CD to work. Somewhere down the road the went to the tattoo method. Windows 98 was the step Was it all their Windows 98 disks I do not know I need you to do a few more things I need the Msater CD # on each unit The floppy# The serial number on each unit I need you take the Windows 98 Cd and do the following Under windows search for any files called cab I am looking for the Windows 98 Cabs I would like to see a little more memory on the Windows 95 Unit for an upgrade If you do have the cabs on the Master CD there is a little trick to use it as an upgrade CD "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:nF0wf.40935$QW2.15470@dukeread08... Cool. I'll check out the site. I do have another PB that I just got up and running and it has Win98. I have the restore disk for that one but I don't think I can use it to upgrade to 98 can I? Yea, it's a dinasour compared to now. Here are what the 2 systems have on them. Not sure what info you needed. Any suggestions would be great! Thank you! Windows 95 Packard Bell Model A940-TWR Pentium 233 Processor 32 mb ram Has 2 sticks though? CD Rom ATAPI 52x CD Writer Hewlett Packard 8100 Netgear FA310 TX Ethernet Adapter Windows 98 Packard Bell Model CPTR 730 M II 266 Processor 64 mb Ram 2 sticks CD Rom Liteon LTN301 CD Writer Sony CRX140E Netgear FA311 Ethernet Adapter "metronid" wrote in message ... www.zdnet.com has many of the updates that used to be available when Windows 95 was yje new kid on the block. Under downloads the keyword is Internet explorer If you could upgrade to Windows 98 somehow You would be able to used the same link to get the newest versions of IE which also includes many fixes seen in Windows XP It is never going to be top of the line In fact top of the line today is short lived term If I knew exactly what you had on your computer I could give further advice "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:QfWvf.40907$QW2.17152@dukeread08... Hi there, Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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"unable to determine CD-Rom drive model"
I thought you had to use an upgrade Cd to go over top of
Windows 95 Maybe that is not true with the master cd as you have shown Tweaks I use a Registry mechanic to keep my system running properly I keep pop ups off my system unless It is a must for a particular prompt I do do not accept any cookies unless I know their origin first I do not make my system do things outside of its design I am currently trying to write a program to kill the new killer pop up such as 888.com These conform to whole new set of rules These guys are getting smart "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:MAYwf.41215$QW2.32693@dukeread08... Hi there, Sorry for the late reply. Didn't see the cab file you mentioned but I did put recovery disk & diskette from the Win 98 machine and put it in the Win 95 machine and it let me upgrade to Win 98. Just had to use the same product key. I was thinking I had tried that before (a good while back) and it wouldn't let me but I was able to do it this time. I also found out the CD Roms in both machines are not the Roms that came with them. Both were replace at one point. I restored both computers as they were when they were new but it had a lot of stuff I'll never use (Kiddo Net, etc) and realized I could choose the option to install Windows only so I did that to both systems. There are still a few icons on the desktop that I believe I will never use ( Install Fax, Packard Bell Internet access, etc). Most are located in at C:\PROGRA~1.... I think I could have opted for the Custom install of Windows and chose not to install these but there were some selections there I was unsure of so I just did the regular install. I got IE 6 and did the Windows updates for both. Seem to be running fine, no more script errors. The # for the Master CD is 172200-03 and the floppy is BPCS# 142938-04. Any more tweaking suggestions just lmk. Thank you! "metronid" wrote in message . .. The information you supplied is great It looks as though windows 98 will work Can you use your other master CD Maybe. Originally PB used the bios to allow the Master CD to work. Somewhere down the road the went to the tattoo method. Windows 98 was the step Was it all their Windows 98 disks I do not know I need you to do a few more things I need the Msater CD # on each unit The floppy# The serial number on each unit I need you take the Windows 98 Cd and do the following Under windows search for any files called cab I am looking for the Windows 98 Cabs I would like to see a little more memory on the Windows 95 Unit for an upgrade If you do have the cabs on the Master CD there is a little trick to use it as an upgrade CD "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:nF0wf.40935$QW2.15470@dukeread08... Cool. I'll check out the site. I do have another PB that I just got up and running and it has Win98. I have the restore disk for that one but I don't think I can use it to upgrade to 98 can I? Yea, it's a dinasour compared to now. Here are what the 2 systems have on them. Not sure what info you needed. Any suggestions would be great! Thank you! Windows 95 Packard Bell Model A940-TWR Pentium 233 Processor 32 mb ram Has 2 sticks though? CD Rom ATAPI 52x CD Writer Hewlett Packard 8100 Netgear FA310 TX Ethernet Adapter Windows 98 Packard Bell Model CPTR 730 M II 266 Processor 64 mb Ram 2 sticks CD Rom Liteon LTN301 CD Writer Sony CRX140E Netgear FA311 Ethernet Adapter "metronid" wrote in message ... www.zdnet.com has many of the updates that used to be available when Windows 95 was yje new kid on the block. Under downloads the keyword is Internet explorer If you could upgrade to Windows 98 somehow You would be able to used the same link to get the newest versions of IE which also includes many fixes seen in Windows XP It is never going to be top of the line In fact top of the line today is short lived term If I knew exactly what you had on your computer I could give further advice "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:QfWvf.40907$QW2.17152@dukeread08... Hi there, Before you had posted I had done some more googleing and had tried a few things. What got it to work was, with the win98se boot floppy and master cd in, if I remember correctly, I typed E:\DOSMENU\DOSRUN and the E:\DOSMENU prompt came up. Then I typed \DOSRUN at the prompt then a PB restore menu came up and selected to start restore but that screen didn't look like the normal pb screen. It copied the Windows 95 files to the HD and rebooted once and gave me "invalid drive specification" so not knowing where to go from there, I put the master floppy in with the master cd still in there and rebooted. PB restore screen came up as normal from there and went through the restore with no problem. To answer your questions, the E; drive is the original that came with the system the F: is an HP CD writer, and yes the master floppy I used is 142919-04. After the restore the factory installed drive is now Q: which is what it always has been, I just forgot. I do have a question if I may, seeing that this is an old version of windows and has just been restored to what would be "new/updated" status in 1996-97, what should be done now as far as Windows Updates, IE upgrades, and other upgrades to get it to run decent as it can. It already has a Netgear ethernet card and I have that in working order. Every page I go to on the web it gives me a script error. It already has more memory and ram from way back before the system went down and I replaced the CMOS battery already. I just got my other PB with windows 98 up and running so I would need to do the same for that one. Thank you for your help! "metronid" wrote in message ... The restore floppy loads the drivers for the CDROM Now if the CDROM has been changed it will not have the drivers And I see that you have 2 Cdroms as you have an E and F drive with the Windowss 98 boot disk I also see that you have the Master CD in the E drive I do not know if one is the original CDROM or if both are replacements I am assuming you are you floppy \DOSRUN In any case try this If it does not work I can make you a floppy that will work With the windows 98 floppy and reading the cd under E drive CD the directory to dosmenu Type the following at the dosmenu prompt restore.exe and hit return or dosrun.exe and hit return "ss95chevy" wrote in message news:%rivf.40653$QW2.32185@dukeread08... Got a problem maybe someone could help me out. Got my brothers old Packard Bell out that went down a while back to see if I could get it running. Wouldn't boot up. Figured I'd start clean and use the master cd and diskette. Put them in it says Starting Windows 95.... Master Restore Diskette Version 8.41.....checking system......searching for cd rom......Unable to determine CD Rom Drive Model.........A:\ Can't get past this. Got a Windows 98SE boot disk and tried that. Says Starting Windows 98, then 3 options..... start with CD rom support, without Support, and Help. I select with support. Then loads drivers and PCI bus scans.... Preparing to start comp... diagnostics were succesfully loaded to drive D... It then show Drive E: = Driver MSC001 unit 0 and Drive F: = Driver MSC001 unit 1.....To get help press enter........A:\ I did an fdisk and format.....ran scandisk on the HD and said it was fine. With the master CD in, I can look in E: and see the folders on the master cd. Here is what I see. APPS BOOKS BU COMMAND DOSMENU FLOPPY PCDR TOOLS I was told I would see a folder named Win95 and to select that one and that would start restore but I don't see that folder. Is there a way to start the restore from those folders? If so what do I type? Should I put the master diskette in? Thanks for any help! |
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