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I upgrded my old thinkpad to win95a, and when I attempt to use the CD drive I receive the message"Drive D not ready abort retry"
I've tried checking the system settings and it says that the TEAC 40 is fine.
So is my CD drive shot, or is there something that I am missing like a driver?
Was it working before the upgrade?
Usually (assuming you've got a cd in it) it means the drive or cd is bad.
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It's been a long time, but it seems to me that Win95A does not have a built in CD driver. But I might be mistaken.
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I think you must be - Win31 relied on the DOS driver, but Win95 uses its own, and does not require autoexec.bat or config.sys
As DAVE says: it's likely bad (or maybe dirty)
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This is the download page for that model. It just shows dos/win 3.1 cdrom drivers. Laptop cdroms often needed proprietary drivers but since your 95 is showing the cdrom, it must be using the necessary drivers.
I think microsoft's site had a page listing hardware that had problems with 9x but I doubt it's there anymore.
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Thanks Jboy, my memory returned 'a little' and I realized I was thinking about the drives attached to sound cards with proprietary CD controllers.
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Yeah, there were a lot of oddball drives around in that era, which required the right driver & installer too, sometimes (DAVE's dealt with a bunch of those) - doesn't seem to be the case here, that error implies that the drive is recognized by Windows
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The "eject" comand fucntions, and the drive lights up for a few seconds then just stops.
Would the command to install the driver be
A:/setup or
A:/installC:\A:\install?
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Are you intending to install the win3.1 drivers? It probably won't help but I guess you can try. Running the downloaded file creates a disk. Put the disk in the a: drive and type a:setup (no backslash after a:).
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Same page as DAVE's link in #5
Regardless, I can't see that being an improvement - drivers aren't the issue, it sounds more like dirty (or just plain bad) optics
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thanks to all, I think the Cd drive is shot though. The only reason why I switched to 95 was the new larger files in modern programs. INOW no CD drive, no reason to be in win95a.I'll reinstal 3.1 and upgrade to 3.11 with Calmira XP.
Tip of the hat to everyone.
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If there isn't a setup program for the drivers, they should be installed by starting them in config.sys. You will also need to start msconfig (with the proper command line options) in autoexec.bat.
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Ignore response #15. I'm afraid I wasn't paying attention, like I should have been.
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Actually DAVEINCAPS, that IBM page is an old friend.
I've tried many many time to download the PHDISK utility from there and I can't get it to woork, It only tells me that it can extract itself to another disk! "Insert a disk into drive B and make a copy, or you can change the destination letter (to use a different drive)"
Is there anyway you or some other kind soul could send me the PHDISK program from that page?
I've tried burning it to a CD, the drive on the laptop wouldn't work, and the floppy wouldn't work
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I just sent the extracted download. I downloaded it today but when running it, the floppy drive would screw up. Odd! But I found a disk containing the files I must have downloaded the other day.
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Thanks Dave, after almost year it is fixed!I still had problems with the download but I did find a old disk named "UTIL" and sure enough, it was on there.
There was a pci bus error that invovled the CD drive, so that got rundown as well.
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Yes it is, the phoenix program self installed and ran, formatted it's own partition etc.However, I did have to "delete partitions" before I installed PHDISK, the program tried formatting and the "parition table missing corrupted" came up several times but in the end it ran after several phoenix bios memory checks. Win3.1 with calmira 3.31 installed.
(Still trying to install XP 4.0 calmira :) )
On a IBM 365, the program is known as "PC Tools"
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"... after almost year it is fixed!"
Oh, yeah - good times (good times)
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