Win95 installation problem

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Penny - 06 Nov 2003 23:05 GMT

I had to reformat the hard drive and I used a boot disk
for Win95 (d/l from bootdisk.com). Everything was going as
supposed to until I got to the "D" prompt. Now I get the
message : CDR101: Not ready reading D Abort, Retry,
Fail?
What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great!!
Thanks in advance.

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philo - 07 Nov 2003 00:04 GMT

> I had to reformat the hard drive and I used a boot disk
> for Win95 (d/l from bootdisk.com). Everything was going as
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> What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great!!
> Thanks in advance.

the bootdisks from bootdisk.com AFAIK assign the letter R:
to your cd rom

watch the boot message to confirm that

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Penny - 07 Nov 2003 00:15 GMT

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>Thanks for getting back to me so quick! I tried what you

suggested and got "Invalid drive specification". Could
you tell me how to "assign" a letter to my cd rom in DOS?

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philo - 07 Nov 2003 11:44 GMT

> >-----Original Message-----
> >
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> suggested and got "Invalid drive specification". Could
> you tell me how to "assign" a letter to my cd rom in DOS?

the bootdisk is supposed to assign the letter to your cd rom

watch the screen while your machine is booting

you will either see a letter being assigned

or else an error message such as "no drives detected"

if you do see the letter being assigned but
still cannot get your cd to read...
then chances are either your cdrom is defective
or else the disk you put in is dirty or scratched

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sammy - 07 Nov 2003 13:45 GMT

Be aware that w95 doesn't have drivers on it's boot flop for cdrom. W98
does have that and asks if you want cdrom support and then assigns a drive
letter. I guess that you boot to A: (with the W95 floppy) and then try to
access your cd rom on D: which because there are no drivers, is not being
recognised by W95. And therefore the Invalid Drive message.
You must install the CD drivers for dos or else use the W98 boot floppy and
choose CD support and then Run the Win 95 installation from there.

good luck.

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> >-----Original Message-----
> >
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> suggested and got "Invalid drive specification". Could
> you tell me how to "assign" a letter to my cd rom in DOS?

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Ben Myers - 07 Nov 2003 23:58 GMT

Please repost with more information, including the manufacturer
and model of the CD drive in the computer.

Ben

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