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Hi, i have an old PC and when i startet th welcome message was: No Operating System.I also saw at the beginning my PC found CD drive.I wanna install Windows but without CD i can't do this.Can someone help me????
thx
If what I understand from your post is correct, you are looking to install windows, but do not have the windows install CD. But your computer has a CD ROM Drive.
Correct?If thats the case, you need to get a windows CD from somewhere (beg, borrow, steal - though ALL of those are illegal) OR get windows installable files copied onto a hard drive and connect it to your hard drive which is a tedious process and again illegal (you may ask, so what? well...am with you :D )
Post back and let us know what you can / want to do and we will help you out.
-Kailas Shastry.
India.
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hi Kalias,
i have windows CD but i can't use the CD drive.when my PC boot i see message:No operating system.I set BIOS to boot from CD but doesn't work.It say's
BOOT FROM CD FAILED
No Operating Systemthx for ur replay
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Which OS are you trying to install? Win95 and Win98 first edition CDs are not bootable. You can go to www.bootdisk.com and download a file that will create a bootable floppy. If your cdrom drive is mot ancient, you, with that floppy, you can access the cdrom drive and run the `setup' program on it.
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Hi rich thx for trying to help me,
i have a bootable floppy but when i writte but i can't access my CD. i tried almost all letters d: e: f: but non of them work. I have a Win98 SE and Windows 95 too. Before the PC crashed Win ME was installed on it.
thx once more for the help
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Boot with the bootdisk and pay attention to what appears on the screen as the drivers are loading. The last few lines should tell you what drive letter your cdrom is.
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Hi DAVEINCAPS: i see this:
CD found: CD-55(i think the PC detects a new hardware,my PC thinks i have put a new CD on my PC)
but dunno where can i see the letterHi jamie: I think the problem is that my PC thinks i have put a new Hardware on my PC.No i saw when my PC starts it gives a message:
CD found CD-55
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The 'cd found cd-55' is the bios telling you it's found a cdrom. That has nothing to do with what drive letter an operating system will give it.
After this posting screen, when you're actually booting from the bootdisk, is the information that will tell you the drive letter.
Teac makes a cd-55 cdrom. If that's what you have it's only a 4X.
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If you're booting from a standard 98 floppy bootdisk and choosing 'cdrom support' then the last few lines to load will say something like:
MSCDEX Version 2.25
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. . .
Drive D: = Driver OEMCD001 unit 0A:\>
In the example above, D: is the cdrom drive letter. If that's not what you're getting then what exactly is showing up on the screen?
I'll check back tomorrow. It's 4:15 AM here.
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DAVEINCAPS hi again and thx once more for ur replay,
i boot with Win98 floppy bootdisk thats true but how can i choos 'cdrom support'. In my BIOS i dunn have such an option.
I realised that i can't boot with Windows 98 SE. Everytime is says FAILED. When tried the same with Win XP than everythink was OK.So i think i should find other Win 98 SE.
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Choosing cdrom support is an option from the menu AFTER starting to boot from a bootdisk. It's not in the bios.
I really just need to know EXACTLY what the last few lines read on your screen are when booting from a bootdisk. It could be you need a better bootdisk. I came across this microsoft page:
CD-ROM DRIVES REQUIRING REAL-MODE DRIVERS
that indicates a Teac cd-55 needs proprietary drivers.
But first I need to know exactly what the last few lines on the screen are when booting from a bootdisk.
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DAVEINCAPS i dont know how to thank u man,i saw that CD driver was R:
thx thx 1000 times
now i installed new OS and everything wors finehave a good day
:)
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I'm glad you got it figured out. Some custom made bootdisks choose a particular letter for the cdrom. That's so it will always be a constant letter and not change due to the user having several IDE devices.
Once you install your OS, the cdrom letter should be d: again (or one letter higher than your highest hard drive partition letter).
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