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| Thread ID: 25173 | 2002-09-27 22:46:00 | External CD-ROM drivers for Win98 Boot Disk | Young Whiz Kid (2051) | Press F1 |
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| 83868 | 2002-09-27 22:46:00 | Hey from the newest brown-noser in town, I have an older pentium laptop, whith no OS on it. I have had Windows 98SE running on it before, but suffered a hard disk crash, and bought an old second-hand 4gig replacement disk for it. The problem is, I don't know the command lines to put in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to load the device drivers for an external parallel CD-ROM drive. I contacted the vendor of the external CD-ROM drive, but to no avail. [www.shuttletech.com]. Does anybody know how to create a bootable disk so I can install Win 98 on my Laptop??? |
Young Whiz Kid (2051) | ||
| 83869 | 2002-09-27 23:32:00 | Welcome to the forum. You don't have to brown nose here to get assistance! BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 83870 | 2002-09-28 01:31:00 | I amy be wrong here, but I thought external CDROM drives were SCSI not parallel? Also do you have the drivers for the drive |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 83871 | 2002-09-28 03:41:00 | Correct Terry, you are wrong :D Some are parallel. ;-) However, a search on google with "External CDROM driver" gave a few worth following. The one titled "Shuttle computer Driver - Shuttle computer cdrom ..." says that there is a driver on www.driverguide.com . This might get you there (www.driverguide.com)... (I think the username and password are "drivers" and "all" to get to use driverguide ... ;-) ). It might work ... The alternative to try is CDGod ... I've given the address on PressF1 (use our search button) ... otherwise you'll find it on google. (Don't search for "CD God" :O) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 83872 | 2002-09-28 03:42:00 | You can get external CD-ROM drives that are parallel external as in an external box, not internal which is inside the computer. And yes I do have the two drivers: aspicd.sys, and epatcd.sys Do you know how to handle these? |
Young Whiz Kid (2051) | ||
| 83873 | 2002-09-28 03:51:00 | Make a file (with notepad or DOS EDIT) called config.sys, containing DEVICE=aspicd.sys DEVICE=epatcd.sys It will pay to get the thing from driverguide (or search for "epatcd.sys" to see if there are any options needed. Documentation is helpful. aspicd is a standard driver, the epatcd is obviously the one which applies to the external connection/ You will also need AUTOEXEC.BAT with [pre]MSCDEX.EXE [pre]That will need some options ... in DOS type MSCDEX /? and it will tell you the options. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 83874 | 2002-09-28 04:00:00 | Expect Graham will reply at the same time:) You need a boot floppy and put the cdrom drivers on it together with mscdex.exe (from c:\windows\command or off a win98 CD), and autoexec.bat and config.sys files. In config.sys, add the lines device=aspicd.sys device=epatcd.sys /D:mscd001 In autoexec.bat: mscdex.exe /D:mscd001 Incidently aspicd.sys is a scsidriver (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 83875 | 2002-09-28 04:13:00 | Thankyou for all your help, it is very much appreciated. This has cleared up a lot of difficulties for me. Kind regards Matthew V |
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