No, not like that. Boot with the boot disk and then from the a:\ prompt type 'fdisk' [Enter] and follow the instructions above. You don't need to copy it to the hard drive to use it. However invalid media type sounds like you already have a partition established, so go into fdisk and choose option [4] and see what it says you have for partitions (mainly their usage %).

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I got it ,i can enter my option 4 say partition=c status =A type =pri dos vol label=(blank) mbytes=772 system =unknow usage 100% looks good ?i put the steps you gave me above? thanks for your patient doomsday

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Yeah, looks real good actually. Now skip down in my instructions to the part where I say 'format c: /u' and go from there. :)

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I am in fdisk ,I HIT "Y" I hit "1" after I hit "1" again, My computer say ( after i tol you"primary dos partition already exists"

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No, no. I said to start where it says 'format' in the above instructions. That's past trying to create a partition. Here: Exit from fdisk and reboot with the boot disk again. This time at the a:\ prompt type 'format c: /u' [Enter] and let it do its work. Note that you have to have the correct version of 95 to support FAT32. This would be 95B or OSR2 as it's called. After the format boot once more from the boot disk, let it detect your CD-ROM drive and then see what drive letter it gets. At the a: prompt type 'driveletter:\setup' [Enter] and see how that goes. If you have a version of 95 that supports FAT32 it'll install properly. If not, we'll format as FAT16. Either way follow my instructions and post here again when you run into a problem with them.

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I need put in " delete partition or logical dos drive " # 3 , for fat32? because my computer say ,system=unknow I wait for your instruccions thanks

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Nope. Format is what converts it from unknown to FAT16 or FAT32 or whatever. So you have to do format like I said. Trust me, I've done this before. Hence my ability to tell you what to do all from memory.

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forget my last message doomsday my hard drive right now is format

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Oh, okee...

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I reboot but at prompt A: i put D letter the computer gave me d:\setup my computer say bad command or file name , doomsday i have the drives my cd but when i put the drives my computer say" enter the driver where the autoexec.bat is located "y put C, A ,D ,E ,F,,G ,so my computer dont accept nothing ,doomsday i need go to work more late 2 hours i"ll send messages

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Ok then. I dunno what the layout of your CD-ROM for ME is (as mine is a special version anyway,) but try this. Go to the d: drive as you did before. Then type 'dir setup.exe /s' [Enter] and tell me what it says. If you need to go to work, go ahead. Just e-mail me when you're back and ready for more as I am done answering these posts for right now. Time for lunch! :)

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say " VOLUME IN DRIVE D IS MS_RAMDRIVE DIRECTORY OF D:\ FILE NOT FOUND 1,486,848 free" , my cd is pcmcia addonics pocket 11,other thing i put ago 3 days card soft,I dont know if this is good or bad for my cd

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say " VOLUME IN DRIVE D IS MS_RAMDRIVE DIRECTORY OF D:\ FILE NOT FOUND 1,486,848 free" , my cd is pcmcia addonics pocket 11,other thing i put ago 3 days card soft,I dont know if this is good or bad for my cd,if i need take off card soft tell me how? thanks

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other thing doomsday before I make all mess in my hard drive my drives CD dont look for autoexec.bat butright now when i put the drives say ENTER THE DRIVE WHERE THE AUCTOEXEC.BAT IS LOCATED,looks like i dont have autoexec.bat or i dont know you tell me ,right now when my computer start say invalid system disk ,replace disk and then press any key,I know I can start with my bootdisk(I tell all things for you understand me) the first steps worked right now in fdisk # 4 say FAT32

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Ok then, the format was a success. Now you need to boot with the boot disk one more time and let it detect the CD-ROM. It should tell you a drive letter it assigns it to which will not be C: (hard drive) or D: (RAM disk) - most probably E:. One of the very last lines when the boot disk loads with CD-ROM support will be what drive letter the CD-ROM got...if any. Tell me what you see for the last few lines after the boot disk finishes loading. Or you might just try typing 'e:\setup' [Enter] and see if that works - once again after the boot disk finishes. Now, back to The Sims! I found the money byte and I'm a multi-millionaire!!

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say"the diagnostic tools were successfuly loaded to drive D " device driver not found 'mscd001' no valid cd rom device drives selected , to get help type help and press enter doomsday when i put e:\setup say "invalid drive specification" I"ll be back in 1 hour doomsday thanks

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Yeah, the "'mscd001' no valid cd rom device..." message means it didn't see your CD-ROM. You said this is a PCMCIA CD-ROM didn't you? Try maybe putting the 95 CD-ROM in the drive and removing the boot disk and booting the machine. A lot of PCMCIA CD-ROMs on laptops (so far as I know - laptops aren't really my thing) support booting from the CD. I am surprised the 98 boot disk didn't find it. You might also try getting an ME boot disk as it is newer and may have more support - including support for your drive. Unfortunately I have to go home and get some sleep for tomorrow (it's 8:44PM here), but if someone else can help you that's great - if not, I'll be back tomorrow...

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yes is laptop my cd is pcmcia addonics, when i put my cd, my cd rom start but after 15 seconds my cd stop.

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doomsday thanks for everything ,I saw the addonics support for my cd and the support have a lot things very confusing for me the adress is http://www.addonics.com/techsupportswf.htm

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doomsday thanks a lot for your help, my problem is my cd ,i think need change for other brand more new doomsday thank you very much Theresa

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I am currently making a 98 boot disk that uses the drivers supplied on the Addonics web site. Do you know which model exactly your CD-ROM is? I got the ones for the 'Pocket CD (old version)'.

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Ok I give up on trying to get an image file. I put the files you need up on my company's web site. You can find them here. Download the three files and add them to your 98 boot disk. It'll prompt if you want to overwrite with autoexec.bat and config.sys, say yes. Then reboot your machine with that and tell me how it goes.

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my addonics is pocket 2 ,this CD is new for MICON but the model no match with all models I found ,more late I put other message with the model and i'll tell you about the drives you gave me because I am in my work thanks

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What's the model number? That's listed on that site.

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is model CA-280pd item no 12.31013.E7B, I put your drives you gave me and say " ADDONICS Inc Freemont CA94538 ver2.21 (C) archos 94-7, mini cd no unit found:driver dumped

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is model CA-280pd item no 12.31013.E7B, I put your drives you gave me and say " ADDONICS Inc Freemont CA94538 ver2.21 (C) archos 94-7, mini cd no unit found:driver dumped bad comand or file name

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Found it. Addonics did ?? for that drive. Archos is actually the one that made it, it looks like. I found DOS drivers for the Mini CD unit and am downloading them now. Shall post again once they're done downloading and I'm done putting them up on the company web site for your download.

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Disregard that. No offense, but you write VERY confusing sentences. I managed to download a newer version of the same driver that DIDN'T work. Back to searching...

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I give up for the night. All I'm succeeding at is pissing myself off.

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sorry but i speak a little english,doomsday i got e-mail for the person sold me the CD ,(micon)he told me my cd is 24X thanks

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sorry but i speak a little english,doomsday i got e-mail for the person sold me the CD ,(micon)he told me my cd is 24X thanks, in my last message say "mini cd NO unit found:drive dumped"

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why i can't put my drives i have in floppy disk for my cd, my computer ask me for "enter the drive where the autoexec.bat is located" I put c: ,d:,e:,a:,f:, g: and my computer dont accept any letter

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Theresa....maybe i can help. I will email you a file. but i will need an email address to send it to. When you receive the file i will tell you what to do with it.

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Doomsday.....you have the patience of the Gods......I admire you for trying to help this young lady to the extent you are. I put together a bootbale floppy disk to tackle this sort of problem a while back. If this doesnt work then we are buggered! Take care

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Blobby66: Thanks. :) theresa: For speaking little English, you're doing great. So don't feel bad. :) Now, the thing I should have done a long time ago (assuming Blobby66 hasn't already fixed your problem. If so - that's excellent, good job Blobby66! :) You say you have a CD-ROM install disk. Had I listened well, this probably would have been solved by now. I need you to boot with your boot disk - the one with my drivers that don't work. Then remove that disk and put the CD-ROM install disk in. From the a: prompt type 'dir *.sys /s' [Enter]. Tell me what it says. The plan is to take the valid driver (the *.sys file) from that CD-ROM install disk and put it on the boot floppy. We could put the drivers directly on the hard drive, but that would only be worthwhile if we make the drive bootable. If we do that, 98 Setup will probably detect that as an old DOS version and make you go through a boot menu to access Windows. I am trying to avoid that. (Even though the menu can be easily removed.)

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my E-mail rose10red@hotmail.com or raleh1813309@cs.com, DOOMSDAY the computer say "volume in drive a has no label volume serial number is 1804-1b64 directory of A:\nt statpnt sys 43968 06-28-98 6:42p 1 file(s) 43968bytes directory of A:\pcimide PCMI80CL sys 3990 03-31-98p statpcdm sys 17889 05-21-98p statpflp sys 17777 04-23-98p 3 file(s) 39656 bytes total files listed: 4 file(s) 83624 0 dir(s) 647168 bytes free A:\> other thing I installed card soft ,is good or isnot good? thanks doomsday and blobby

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Ok, here's my assumptions from the filenames. The first one is an NT driver. So it doesn't matter. Then we have an unknown file, a file called statpcdm.sys which I believe is for the CD-ROM drive, and a file called statpflp.sys which I believe is for the floppy drive. So here's what you need to try. Do the following steps: Put the boot disk back in. From the a:\ prompt type 'del arccd.sys' [Enter]. Type 'c:' [Enter]. Type 'del *.*' [Enter] and when prompted hit 'y'. Type 'dir /ah' [Enter] and see if it lists anything. Type 'dir /ad' [Enter] and see if it lists anything. (If either list anything, come back and tell me and we'll remove them.) Place the CD-ROM install disk in the drive. Type 'a:' [Enter]. Type 'cd pcimide' [Enter]. Type 'copy statpcdm.sys c:\' [Enter]. Place the boot disk back in the drive. Type 'c:' [Enter]. Type 'ren statpcdm.sys arccd.sys' [Enter]. Type 'copy arccd.sys a:\' [Enter]. Reboot with the boot disk again and see if it works. As usual, tell me if you run into any problems.

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doomsday ,my startup disk is new, because I lost your files you gave me steps back, but when i want get again your page is blank ,I put my new disk start up in the first step say file not found,next step i put 'y' the next step dira/h say invalid switch the next step say invalid switch the next step say file not found sorry but i have my laptop in docking (my cord is in my work) and my desk computer in other room ,I had run a lot

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Well this was sort of tailored for that exact disk I'd provided, so I'll have to re-upload those files. Hang on a sec...I'll post when they're up again.

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is JUST one file doomsday? config.sys

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No, my ftp software f-ed up like it did last night. Don't touch that file. It's screwed up. I'm still working on getting the files up - this time with the command line ftp that comes with NT.

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Ok, the files are up there. Copy config.sys, autoexec.bat and arccd.sys to your 98 boot disk like before. Then follow the above instructions for copying the correct driver over. DO NOT mess with the .nfsxxxx file as it is a remnant of my FTP software freezing. I can delete it but it just creates another one with a slightly different name.

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you tell me when is ready , thanks

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It's ready. Go ahead and get the files.

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Oh, I forgot my Linux training. You can't see the .nfsxxxx file cause the . means it's hidden. :)

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when i put my CD-rom install disk ,the first step A:\>cd pcimide say "invalid directory" in the next step say file not found

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Doomsday ,if you are tired about this no problem forget it , you tell me i need go to work in three more hours I"ll be here theresa

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At the A:\ prompt with the CD-ROM install disk inserted type 'dir /ad' [Enter]. I took the name of the directory from your above post and it's probably just a typo.

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doomsday i make a mistake no is pcimide is pcmide ,OK I can copy the file to my boot disk when my computer start say "atapi/ide cd-rom device driver v2.50 shining technologies ,inc all rights reserved .1994-98 drive name: cd rom 01 searching for atapi cd-rom on ide bus... **unable to locate any cd-rom drive a:\>

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1) Are you SURE this is the CD-ROM install disk for that CD-ROM? An ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM is an internal one. Ok, go back to the 'pcmide' directory and this time use 'pcmi80cl.sys' in the place of 'statpcdm.sys' in my above directions. So in other words, follow those directions again this time using 'pcmi80cl.sys' instead of 'statpcdm.sys'. I'm starting to run out of ideas, theresa. :)

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I put you told me pcmi80cl.sys my computer say "shining pmide-asc,m17 card services client version 5.30" copyright (c) shining technology 1995-98,all rights reserved NO CARD SERVICES FOUND! CONFIGURING THE SOCKET NOW! IRQ=B IO ADDRESS=150 OFF A:\> Iam here in my work ,I go home more late I'll be here

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I think I have it now...maybe. If not, I have one more way to try. Could you e-mail me the two files 'pcmi80cl.sys' and 'statpcdm.sys' please?

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