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Can't Get Laptop To Recognise CD-ROM

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Name: MSW
Date: July 20, 2002 at 07:26:18 Pacific
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I have a very old Toshiba laptop with no OS on it - I want to install Win 95. It has a floppy drive and an external CD-RW (Philips CCD4401) connected via a backpack parallel caddy (Datawise). I've tried every bootdisk I can find (bootdisk.com, ultimate boot disk etc..) and although the laptop knows there's a CD there, I can't get it to work. Anyone know of anything else I can try please?



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Name: bobsmock
Date: July 20, 2002 at 14:27:46 Pacific
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I've never heard of a dos driver for a cdrw but that is what you need. Perhaps datawise or Phillips can provide the driver you need.


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Name: MSW
Date: July 20, 2002 at 15:00:29 Pacific
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Thanks for your advice. I have the correct drivers on floppy but they don't seem to work :-(


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