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does anyone know how i can find my d drive because i know i have 1 and i didnt take it out but its not even showing the letter. i have windows 3.1 and im not really good with computers. thanks in advance. i dont know what a processor type is or the ram amount.sorry.
First off is the "D:" drive partitioned and formatted? If so, if the "D:" drive is formatted FAT32 or NTFS DOS 6.22 and earlier can not "see" it. DOS versions later than 6.22 can "see" FAT32 but not NTFS (without special utilities.)
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Your computer should display a great deal of of info when it first starts up - processor, RAM, disk drives etc - although on more recent machines it might flash by too quickly to read.
You can check on drive status by either going to the BIOS/CMOS setup, which is usually accomplished by hitting the 'del' key as the computer starts up - this might be different on your machine, instructions should appear as the computer starts.
From DOS you can enter:
fdisk
and choose '4' to show drive status
Not clear from your post whether your D: drive is a hard disk or a CD-ROM drive, the above info mainly applies to hard drives - CD drives weren't automatically recognized on older machines.Any additional info would help.
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its the cd-rom drive. when i turn on my computer it says that the drive isnt ready and to set or turn it on. press a to abort or r to retry.
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I'm not positive what you mean by 'deleted it' - the CD drive is loaded under DOS by two lines:
in c:\config.sys something like
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001
(your driver file & its location would probably be different)
& in c:\autoexec.batlh c:\dos\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001
You could open either of the files in DOS with DOS Edit, or in Windows with Notepad or just fire up SysEdit to check.
It's also possible that the drive has failed mechanically (time for a new one) or else the lens is dirty - might be able to purchase a cleaning kit.
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what does it mean by turn on the cd-rom drive or set it. when i turn on my computer it says all this info and it says hard disk not installed.
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when i do load mscdex.exe, the screen turns black, says something on the top of the screen and then goes back to the desktop.
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allen, it's hard to know what to advise you, the information that you're providing is extremely vague:
"all this info"
&
"says something on the top of the screen"
isn't a whole lot to go on.
It would be better if you could post the exact messages.
"hard disk not installed" - - ok, that seems unlikely, you wouldn't get much out of your computer without at least one hard drive.
Please, you need to explain what you've done and what you're doing to get the various error messages (some info on your machine might also help)."In order to help you best, it is necessary that you post a detailed description of your problem, along with your system credentials"
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Is the drive recognised in BIOS or on the POST screen prior to DOS/Windows starting???
The easiest way is to download a Windows 98 SE OEM Boot Disk from http://www.bootdisk.com/ and boot PC with this enabling CD support, if the CD is recognized in BIOS then the boot disk will find it, if not you need to check your CD drive connections inside PC etcetcetc....
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The so-called "Windows 98 SE OEM Boot Disk" is not compatible with Win3.1. Try the *standard* MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk from here instead:
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I only suggested the boot disk to see if the CD drive was recognised in BIOS, not to install W3.x which I know is incompatible ..........
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you need a simple generic cd driver, this can be found on any of the boot disks at www.bootdisk.com i got the message that the cd drive wasen't ready when my driver wouldn't detect my new cd drive. also if your pc is older then the cd drive isn't going to be reconized my the bios which if your new to pcs is basicly where a lot of basic in is stored on the pc hence the name Basic Input Oput System (aka bios) now all you have to do is download the boot disk then run the installer, hopfully you have a pc that can do this then turn off this pc with the prob and insert the bootdisk then turn it back on, depending on the disk you download it might ask to start with cd rom support if it does say yes, now let us know what happens after you've done this.
BTW: i know what its like to delete a driver as i did that to my modem and couldn't find a replacment so i just upgraded to windows 95 and it detected it fine! also it should say the amount of ram when you start your pc, and as for the cpu it should have something listed on your pc like maybe on the back or inside the case that says what cpu is, if its good enough i recomend win 95 as its a lot easier to set up then 3.1 and dos but watch out it can crash with the best of them too, 3.1 is more loyal too bad m$ stopped supporting it, can you imagine how good it could have been if some one had made a better win32s! or maybe other utilites that would have brought 3.1 into the next centery!
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ok. i tried the boot disk thing and it said device banana was not found and then it said
A:/>. what did i do wrong.thanks in advance.
ps: sorry i answered late
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every time i try to use a bootdisk, it says no cd-rom drives detected. ending installation.
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when i downloaded the 95 boot disk, it came as a self extracting exe file, then it exatracted to a blank formated disk. this is what i meant by installer
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