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| Thread ID: 14628 | 2002-01-14 02:09:00 | Where's my CD-ROM? | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 31145 | 2002-01-14 02:09:00 | Hi there...I am having a problem trying to stuff a 48x CD-ROM drive into my $10 486-50. The hard drive is a 211MB model but the BIOS thinks its 204MB and DOS thinks its 97.8MB. Anyway, I am trying to put the CD-ROM as slave and the hard drive as master but it just won't detect the CD-ROM drive. The drive has always worked on the win98 startup disk I used before, so it's definitely the computer. Please help, as I desperately need to install windows 95 on it. PS. I wonder if HTML works again (I'm the one that started it all): <a href='about:Look's like links work!'>THIS IS A LINK</a> |
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| 31146 | 2002-01-14 03:07:00 | The 486-50 will 'almost certainly' not boot from a CD. You'll need to have a DOS driver for the CD and MSCDEX on a DOS bootable floppy. |
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| 31147 | 2002-01-14 06:32:00 | hi George, the BIOS will certainly not see or detect the CD-ROM drive. A boot floppy with ATAPI drivers should make it work however. I suggest you boot off the Win98 startup diskette and copy the Win95 CAB files and setup programs to the harddrive first (after formatting if necessary). Next use a Win95 boot floppy with sys.com on it to SYS the harddrive. Then boot off the harddrive and begin the Win95 setup. Windows once installed should then see the CD-ROM. |
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| 31148 | 2002-01-14 08:19:00 | Nope they stopped the html after someone redirected a page to a crack site. Were you the person looking at doing a PressF2. JM |
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