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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / January 2004installing Win95
Hi there. I have a notebook, that I just now got Win2000 off of by using a Win98 bootdisk. Did format c:\...now I am stuck. I really want to install Win95 on this notebook and this thing has the removeable disk drives, for the floppy & cd- rom. So I have a Win98 boot disk that is working & formatted C:......can access C:...but can't do anything else to it..when I change to the cd-rom it won't see the cd...I do get a D:\...but nothing happens. Any suggestions??? If you can't see the CD-ROM drive then the boot disk is incomplete. In any case a W98 bootdisk is not much use for installing W95. Get a utility to make a new one from www.bootdisk.com. Watch carefully for the drive letter that is assigned to the CD - it is probably R. If you are saying that the laptop has a floppy _or_ cd-rom, then the process is more complicated. You need to copy the contents of the boot floppy from A to C and then edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to change all references to A:\ to C:\, then do SYS C: and reboot to hard disk with the CD-ROM drive inserted instead of the floppy. Be sure to rename CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT when the installation is complete. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > Hi there. I have a notebook, that I just now got Win2000 > off of by using a Win98 bootdisk. Did format c:\...now I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > do get a D:\...but nothing happens. > Any suggestions??? I can go to D: & the drive is there (no invalid drive) but can't get to read the cd. Anyway, I am saying this notebook has either OR a disk drive or cd-room...by changing them out.... I have tried & tried making a boot disk at www.bootdisk.com for Windows 95...and it's just not working for me... Tried copying all the files to the c: drive & booting to c:...but I get an invalid system disk error.... Any other suggestions??? Or where else I can find a boot disk.. Thanks so much : ) >-----Original Message----- >If you can't see the CD-ROM drive then the boot disk is incomplete. In any [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >. Drive D is probably not the CD-ROM - what message was displayed on-screen at boot time about the drive letter assigned to the CD-ROM? What problem are you running into using the w95 boot disk utility? You cannot make a hard drive bootable simply by copying files onto it. You need to execute the SYS C: command I mentioned. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 > I can go to D: & the drive is there (no invalid drive) > but can't get to read the cd. Anyway, I am saying this [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > disk.. > Thanks so much : ) I understand that I need to edit files, etc...but I haven't done that in years...but I do think I did what would be needed....at any rate..I'd rather try to get a bootable 95 disk from somewhere...from www.bootdisk.com...the file I want is Win95 and after I down load to a floppy & open it..it runs a batch file then asks for another floppy...and then just quits...I can't get anywhere with it... Just now I pushed just enough buttons on this thing to get Windows 95 to start loading then it came up with a system error trying read drive A:....which I was not trying to read....now, I'm stuck where I was...A:... and C: nothing..... anything else??? >-----Original Message----- >Drive D is probably not the CD-ROM - what message was displayed on-screen at [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >. Tried something different with the boot disk deal...seems ok...for now...I'll let you know how far I get..thank you...so much >-----Original Message----- >I understand that I need to edit files, etc...but I [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> >. Ok...I've got the boot disk now working...but it doesn't have a good cd rom driver on it I guess. Something called 'banana'??? in the config.sys, autoexec.bat files...I'm WAY out of practice on those files... What else would you suggest I do??? >-----Original Message----- >Tried something different with the boot disk deal...seems [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] >> >. > Ok...I've got the boot disk now working...but it doesn't > have a good cd rom driver on it I guess. Something > called 'banana'??? in the config.sys, autoexec.bat > files...I'm WAY out of practice on those files... > What else would you suggest I do??? The boot disk has 4 options for a generic CD Rom driver on it , CD1.SYS ...... CD4.SYS the name banana is just a noticeable optional name that is displayed on the screen for the driver. What you need to do is to try each driver option to see which one works for you , you do this by editing the config.sys file and replace the CD driver cd*.sys with any other of the drivers cd1.sys ...... cd4.sys The first driver statement in the config.sys file usually works , but you have the other options that could be needed , these other statements have been commented out by using the "Rem" statement . If you need to try these extra optional settings , just remove the "Rem" in front of the statement and replace with the driver name that suits your system. ------------------------------------------------------ Config.sys - replace CD driver with cd1.SYS ..... cd4.SYS DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off FILES=30 BUFFERS=20 DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1f0,14 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,15 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,10 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,12 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,11 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,10 rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,9 LASTDRIVE=Z ------------------------------------------------------- The autoexec.bat file doesn't need to be edited in this case because it loads the generic DOS CD driver, MSCDEX.EXE HTH -- Sandgroper ---------------------------------- Remove KNICKERS to Email steveray@KNICKERSiinet.net.au If you are trying to install Windows 95, start the computer with the boot disk, insert the Windows 95 CD and type R:\win95\setup.exe and press "Enter". Ben > Ok...I've got the boot disk now working...but it doesn't > have a good cd rom driver on it I guess. Something [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] > >> > >. I'm back at this problem again. I could do what you suggest but....this is a notebook computer...and it has either a floppy drive or cd rom...not both at the same time....so I am booting to a: with the boot disk & then it doesn't know it has a cd rom is there. How can I boot to C:\ now??? >-----Original Message----- >If you are trying to install Windows 95, start the computer [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >"trish@utsws.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:02b301c3cf2b$9e4c9bf0 $a601280a@phx.gbl... >> Ok...I've got the boot disk now working...but it doesn't >> have a good cd rom driver on it I guess. Something [quoted text clipped - 71 lines] >> > >. Start the notebook with the bootdisk, then type the following two lines: copy /y a:\ c:\ sys c: Remove the floppy drive, install the CD drive and restart. Please note the CD drive will probably be assigned drive letter "R:". If so, try "R:\win95\setup.exe" again. Ben > I'm back at this problem again. I could do what you > suggest but....this is a notebook computer...and it has [quoted text clipped - 105 lines] > >> > > >. |
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