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| 11062 | 2001-04-08 11:19:00 | Could someone please enlighten me on how to enable cd-rom support when booting Win95 in safe mode. I have modified the autoexec and config files and have access to both rom drives in dos mode but not in safe mode. This cause a problem recently when I had a crash and could only boot in safe mode. The setup Rom was required to fix problem but I couldn't access it. Caused all sorts of headaches I'd like to avoid in future. Thanks Rayleen |
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| 11063 | 2001-04-08 13:48:00 | Hello Raylene The following link will tell you all that you need to know http://support.microsoft.com/ support/kb/articles/Q167/0/69.ASP Alan |
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| 11064 | 2001-04-10 03:36:00 | Rayleen, another option is to copy all the Cab files onto your hard drive so they are always accesible. Normal location is folder c:\windows\system\options\cabs With bigger hard drives space is not a problem. All the laptops I support all have the cab files on the hard drive allowing damaged file replacemment by the user. Needs forethought but very worthwhile. If you store them on another partition you can format C:\ completely and as long as you don't power off can switch to the other partition and do a reinstall. Quick and easy. | Guest (0) | ||
| 11065 | 2001-04-10 08:37:00 | Thanks to both of you for the tips hopefully I won't get myself in that situation again. Yes, I normally do copy the cab files to my hard drive but this crash came after a format and reload of Windows and I hadn't got around to copying the files over at that stage. stupid! Thanks again Rayleen. ps the trick to enable cd support was to boot into command prompt only then load windows with the switches win /d:m wish MS had put that in there readme files. |
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