Everything seems to be running fine when I boot up it's just I cant get my CD to run the WIN98 setup in DOS. I can get to my D:\ drive but everytime I type "setup" gives me the invalid command line.I've been tryin' new things everyday but just keep on getting more frustrated. I really need help!!!!
OH yea I boot with my WIN98 setup disk in with my CD in too, then I pick boot with CD rom drivers. It detects my cd drives; I can get to the drives but cant access them to run anything!!

I have a simaliar problem. That I can't seem to fix, I've been working on it for days.

I'm using a Compaq Armada 100s laptop. I'm trying to ger my CDROM to work. I've format my hard drive. I want to reinstall windows but the this is whats on my screen:
Microsof Windows 98 Startup Menu
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1. Start computer with CD-ROM support.
2. Start computer without CD-ROM support.
3. View the help file.

Enter a choice: 1

DOS=HIGH,UMB [Enter=Y ,Esc=N]?Y
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF [Enter=Y, Esc=N?Y
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 [Enter=Y, Esc=N]?Y

This driver is provided by Oak Technology, Inc..
OTI-91X ATAPI CD-ROM device driver, Rev D91xV352

(C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1987-1997

Device Name :MSCD001
No drivers found, aborting installation.
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What can I do? I'm a novice when it comes to using DOS so try to explain things to me step by step. Thanks.

Jeff.
at the d:/> prompt type CD WIN98 (press enter)
then type SETUP and press return.

Arial Raver.
The driver provided by Oak technology may be incompatable with you cd-rom,Will search around but cannot guarantee finding one

Those Compaq's have the bios on the HDD drive .,once you fdisk and format them .,unless you put back what you deleted from formating forget it., your not going to be able to do anything with them .,unless someone out there has found a way around this
I've got the two disks for putting back this what they call factory information but I can't seem to make the 2mgs of HDD space they're referring to., the help section on this subject don't tell you to much either., I just wanted tell it how it is>>>>>Big Al

Hi.

I put a 10 Gig drive in a 7 year old Compaq.

It originally had a 750 MB drive.

I downloaded a utility from the drives manufacturer's website, called a drive overlay program.

This allowed me to access the entire drive with multiple partitions and without having a Compaq bios on the drive.

Take care,

Linda

Linda ..this sounds interesting I don't how it gets around the bios bit but ..could you provide me a link to this., as I finaly got my computer up and running again after takin' it to the shop and give someone else the headaces., but now it's only runnin' at half speed .,what I by this it's got a 1.1 gig but it thinks it's only got half of this.,the fellow who worked on it .,knew quite a bit about these older Compaq laptops .,only took him 15 to twenty minutes to fix what I've be tryin' to do for the last two weeks.,but he told me you cannot put in a HDD larger than 512mgs .,I did'nt quite agree on this neither .,but if I think back to a Compaq Desk Pro I owned .,I had someone put in a 1.2 gig .,and no problems with it I don't know what this guy was talking about and I did'nt make a big issue out of it as he did get my comper working again.....but I'll leave this information with you for trade for that Website.....Thanks.......Big Al

Linda ..this sounds very interesting I don't how it gets around the bios bit but ..could you provide me with a link to this., as I finaly got my computer up and running again after takin' it to the shop and give someone else the headaces., but now it's only runnin' at half speed .,what I by this it's got a 1.1 gig but it thinks it's only got half of this.,the fellow who worked on it .,knew quite a bit about these older Compaq laptops .,only took him 15 to twenty minutes to fix what I've be tryin' to do for the last two weeks.,but he told me you cannot put in a HDD larger than 512mgs .,I did'nt quite agree on this neither .,but if I think back to a Compaq Desk Pro I owned .,I had someone put in a 1.2 gig .,and no problems with it I don't know what this guy was talking about and I did'nt make a big issue out of it as he did get my computer working again.....but I'll leave this information with you for trade for that website.....Thanks.......Big Al

I thought I could correct my bad spelling but it don't work that way...Oh'well you guys must be used to this by now.,after two weeks of questions .,I still have lot's more...questions that is.......Big Al

Hi Big Al.

Here is info on Overlay programs. -

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/overDDO-c.html

I got Ontrack's Overlay with my hard drive.

When I boot the computer up Ontrack takes over so it doesn't need the Bios information.

The computer than sees the entire hard drive even though the original Bios was limited to how big the hard drive could be.

Take care,

Linda