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Invalid Drive Specification
Name: casper8107 Date: May 14, 2003 at 14:14:45 Pacific OS: Win 95 CPU/Ram: PII 266
Comment:
If anyone knows the solution to this problem I would greatly appreciate it...I reformatted my hard drive, and everything was going smoothly, but when I tried to reboot of the Win 95 startup disk by typing D:\setup or E:\setup (so it could read off the CD-ROM) it would just display the message invalid drive specification...what could be the problem?
Is the CD-ROM drive an older 'proprietary' drive needing its own special driver, by any chance?
Looks as if when you boot the PC, it does not 'see' the CD-ROM drive, causing the 'Invalid Drive Specification' notification.
Take a look at the following to troubleshoot the problem: http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/cd/recog_Driver.htm
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Response Number 3
Name: Dan Penny Date: May 14, 2003 at 19:39:37 Pacific
Reply:
Some 95 startup disks didn't have cd support. Bootdisk.com has one I believe. Get one that does, or, use a 98 bootdisk, just don't sys c: with it though. Keeping in mind what FZWG stated , if it's a proprietary drive these bootdisks won't work. Keep us posted and we'll work it out.
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