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On my son's computer we reformatted last fall and due to soem other problems I just got back to setting it up again. I can get an "A or C" prompt but it will not let me access drive "D" for my windows 98 CD.
Anything I type at the prompt just say's "invalid file name"
Any help please?????
-------------------- Troy "Metalleg" Haas 626 Kingswood Dr Evansville,In 47715 Posts: 1100 | From: Evansville,Indiana, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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You may want to check the flat ribbon cable connection and the power plug to the CD player. It may have come loose. Is the PC clock keeping good time? Might even be the motherboard battery.
I recently had the opposite problem. Windows saw that I had a CD drive and I could put CDs in it but I had no access to the files. No power light on the drive and just an error message when I tried to view files. I replaced the drive with a spare and now everything is fine.
-------------------- David McDonald Palm Harbor Florida USA
I think Si is giving you the advice you need. After you dump and reformat your drive, you'll need to install drivers for your CD Rom. You don't need driver for either your "A" or "C" drives, CMOS pretty much takes care of that for you.
Get youself a "boot" disk with your CD Rom driver and you should be in good shape after that!
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
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If you boot your computer using the new Windows 98 Startup Disk, a boot menu appears allowing you the option to load drivers for the most common CD-ROM drives or perform a normal clean boot.
After you make your selection, the Config.sys file loads the appropriate CD-ROM driver (if selected) and then loads a 2MB RAMDrive. The RAMDrive is used to store all the diagnostic tools necessary to troubleshoot the most common problems.
*Note* The RAMdrive may cause your CD-Rom to pushed back 1 drive letter. If your CD-Rom is usually drive D:, it will now be Drive E:.
Hope this help! É
-------------------- Élaine Beauchemin scrip Lettrage Scripsit inc. St-Hubert, Quebec, Canada www.scripsit.net Posts: 1096 | From: Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Go into your bios and change the first boot device to the cdrom, put the cd in and reboot. Or with the standard win98 boot disk, it will ask you whether you want to boot up with cd support.
-------------------- Bruce Evans Crown Graphics Chino, CA graphics@westcoach.net Posts: 913 | From: Chino, CA | Registered: Nov 1998
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You have been given all the advice you would need to do this, but let me first ask some questions.
You dont state wether your win 98 is a full version or upgrade, 98 1st edition or second ( really shouldn't matter) how old is the machine, how old is the cd rom ( what speed) a 2x cd rom is probably not gonna work.
But with up to date equipment, and a current boot disk made from another win98 machine, this is found in the control panel/ add- remove programs/ startup disk.
reboot with the floppy in the drive, it will give you an option to boot with cdrom support. From there it is cake walk.
You can only boot from a full version CD rom usually and ONLY if you motherboard bios supports booting from the cd.
Please state what exactly is not working, does the boot disk work? do you get a d: or an e: drive but still can't access the win98 cd?
[ January 12, 2003, 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Bob Rochon ]
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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Are you in SafeMode? If you are then it won't recognize the cdrom drive. Sorry, I didn't think of that sooner.
But then again, how could that be the problem if Windows isn't even installed?
What formatting program did you use & what did it do?
If you type: "type autoexec.bat" (without the quotation marks) or "type config.sys" at the C-Prompt, do you get a response? If so, write it down & email it to me & I'll let you know if there are any cdrom commands there. But if you do that in SafeMode, then the cdrom commands won't show up anyway.
[ January 13, 2003, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Bill Cosharek ]
-------------------- Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs N.Huntingdon,Pa
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