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Help installing Win 98 SE
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 |
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In news:I50Ed.23383$8l.21759@pd7tw1no,
algae opined very noisily: 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 The CD is not bootable Boot from the "A" disk then go to the CD rom at the A prompt , usually the "E"disk, do a "Dir " find " Setup " and run that -- Yddap Remove guts to reply |
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Thanks for replying. I have tried that since the beginning. No matter what I
try I can't get to the cd rom drive. It's as though the pc doesn't know it's there. I'm getting an "invalid drive specification error". Any suggestions? Thanks Gary "Yddap" wrote in message k... In news:I50Ed.23383$8l.21759@pd7tw1no, algae opined very noisily: 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 The CD is not bootable Boot from the "A" disk then go to the CD rom at the A prompt , usually the "E"disk, do a "Dir " find " Setup " and run that -- Yddap Remove guts to reply |
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The real question here is: How was the Windows 98 boot disk created. If it is
one of the rubbish created as part of the original Win 98 install, it is, well... rubbish. Or at least useless in accessing a CD-ROM drive. Go to www.bootdisk.com , download the Win 98 SE boot disk IMAGE program. Run the program, indicating that it is to create the boot disk on a freshly formatted defect-free floppy diskette. Use the diskette thus created to boot the system. It contains the DOS device driver and MSCDEX.EXE required to access the CD-ROM drive. Pay attention to the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive. From the A: prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon, e.g. R: Then key in the command SETUP Then you will be on your way... Ben Myers On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:50:32 GMT, "algae" wrote: 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 |
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unless the bios was wiped off the HDD..
ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... The real question here is: How was the Windows 98 boot disk created. If it is one of the rubbish created as part of the original Win 98 install, it is, well... rubbish. Or at least useless in accessing a CD-ROM drive. Go to www.bootdisk.com , download the Win 98 SE boot disk IMAGE program. Run the program, indicating that it is to create the boot disk on a freshly formatted defect-free floppy diskette. Use the diskette thus created to boot the system. It contains the DOS device driver and MSCDEX.EXE required to access the CD-ROM drive. Pay attention to the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive. From the A: prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon, e.g. R: Then key in the command SETUP Then you will be on your way... Ben Myers On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:50:32 GMT, "algae" wrote: 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 |
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cdrom correctly installed - cabels? master/slave?
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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