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Sorry for long "subject" but I have been searching message boards for two hours and can't find what I need. I have been given a CTX with DOS version 6.0 and Windows 3.1. It has a CDROM drive but DOS does not recognize it. (I think this means I need a CDROM driver which I've downloaded.) How do I now install this driver? And, how do I then install Windows 95? I think I was given this machine because the previous owner didn't have a clue either!
Hi, I am having the same problem. take a look at the Gateway tech help site there is a stact of stuff on setting CDs to reconise DOS
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Stephanie, since you are going to install win95, simply by-pass the dos and get a start-up (bootdisk) w/cd rom support for your win95 from www.bootdisk.com
At that time, boot from the bootdisk (which has the cdrom support) and it will boot to "a" with the cd drivers loaded.
From there, fdisk the hard drive, set the active partition, reboot...again from the floppy then format the hard drive from "a"
It should look like this A:\ format C: /s /u
This will format the "c" drive and make it bootable.
Once formatted, reboot from the floppy and go to your CD drive and install win95.
From "a" you type "d:" This changes you over to your CD. From there type "cd" (for change directory)then "win95" It will then look like this...d:\win95\
At this point type "setup.exe" (from the win95 directory, as shown above)
Win95 will then load onto your system.
Be prepared to put in the CD key or the oem serial number, since it will ask you for it.
Good Luck
Please re-post and tell us how things went.
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when i try to change to the d:drive it tells me"invalid drive specification" how do i tell DOS that my cd-rom is drive "D"?
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Message #2 is correct but what about if you have laptop and you have removable drives.I have a removable drive for my 3.5 drive and the CD rom and they use the same slot.How do I install Window now
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For now, move the driver to c:\ so the following instructions will be shorter.
Edit config.sys & add line:
DEVICE=c:\drivername.sys /D:mscd001
where
drivername is name of driver file
Example: c:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001Edit autoexec.bat and add line:
C:\dos\mscdex.exe /D:mscd001Reboot the system. If you have only one logical hard drive, the CD drive letter should be D:. If two logical drives, E:, etc.
If you don't have the correct driver, get the boot disk suggested earlier in the response list and copy the oakcdrom.sys from it to your C:\
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I'm having the same problem, and what you suggest (booting with CD ROM Support) would work except my CDROM drive isn't supported. I have the drivers for the Sound Card and the CDROM and still can't get it to work. I also downloaded the DOS 6.22 disks from this site and they don't work.
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Hello, Another possibility is to change your startup-drive-order in the BIOS. Change it so the pc tries to start up first from the CD-ROM. But here the Win'95-cd-rom must be bootable. (I know the official one is bootable...)
Good Luck!
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Hope somebody can figure this one out. I reformatted laptop. Have a boot disk, and drivers for a teac pcmmia ccard/cdrom but boot drivers do not support pcmmia cards. Laptop will not install cdrom without pcmmia card support, and cannot access win98 to get same. Can get to dos, what do I need to put in to get support for pcmmia driver for external cdrom. Error message I get when trying to install cdrrom drivers is "card service not installed" Laptop is Dell Latitude 133 xpi. Thanks
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I'm having the same problem as # 8. I'm trying to load Windows 98 on a re-formated hard drive on a Toshiba laptop. I have the drives for the external cdrom which uses PCMCIA or parallel port to connect, and have tried loading. All I keep getting with the PCMCIA connection is "PCMCIA Card Services not found". Is this yet another driver I must download? If so, from where? Please help. Thank you.
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Awright, I am havig the same problems as Carl and Bud Z. But, I figured out how to load the card services. I know that I have a Cardsoft folder in one of my utility CD-ROM disks. I copied that over to my harddrive, and then ran the ss365sl.exe file to load the Socket Services. Then, ran the cs.exe to load the Card Services, and then csalloc.exe. Then, finally, typed in Cardinfo to run the cardinfo.exe file which activated my CD-ROM drive through the PCMCIA slot. But, can't get my drivers to install correctly, so CD-ROM still not working and can't install Windows 98. Any help?????
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this is my problem, it reads like this (please keep in mind I am stuck in DOS mode.)...
NO DRIVES ARE ATTACHED, OR DRIVES ARE POWERED DOWN. THE DEVICE DRIVER IS NOT INSTALLED.
C:\> C:\DEV\MSCDEX.exe /D:mscd000 /V /M:12
Device driver not found: 'MSCD000'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected.
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This is to Heather
You can access these files by using the DOS EDIT command and opening each file.
Make sure that there is a line like this in your CONFIG.SYS file in your root directory(read as all one line):
DEVICE=c:\(directory of cdrom driver ex. DEVICES)\(name of cdrom driver ex. CDROM.SYS) /D:mscd000
Next, in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file(again in your root directory) you will find a line that matches the one that was displayed on your screen(except for the C:\>)
C:\DEV\MSCDEX.exe /D:mscd000 /V /M:12
If 'DEV' is also the location for your cdrom driver then you would use 'DEV' instead of 'DEVICES' in your config.sys file that I mentioned above.
Also the part that says 'mscd000' has to be the same in both files because they are used as names by 'MSCDEX.EXE' to refer to your cdrom. You can name it anything(within reason) but it must be the same in both instances.
If that doesn't do it more info would help.
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Having the same problem. Can't install external cd-rom using pcmcia drivers.
Please help. Thanks. I want to load windows 95 from D: drive.
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I am seeking help from anywhere. I re-formatted c: then reloaded on Windows 98. After I reloaded Windows 98, it did not detect the CD-Rom drive. I re-formatted the c: again. And to no avail, the cd-rom was not being detected again. The cd-rom is an old 4x Creative and I don't think I have the drivers for it. What can I do?
Thanks for the help.
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