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I have a problem,
i have a toshiba portege 3480CT portable computer and it doesnt have an operating system. I am trying to install win98 SE but when it starts installing this message appears:
device driver not found: 'OEMCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected: so how can I get these drivers, the computer only has the cdrom drive, NO FLOPPY. CDrom drive is a pcmcia drive.
please help me!!
:)
I also tried to install XP pro but with bad results, it gives errors after it tries to start windows setup..WHAT to do, all help very MUCH appreciated!
THANKS
thanks but I still cant install the operatign system. there is no floppy drive so I cannot make a boot disk, should I try to make a bootable cd?
sorry I just dont see how to do it?!here is what happends:
I boot the computer with win 98 se cd..
choose--> boot from cd-rom
choose--> start windows 98 setup from cd-rom
, then it loads some stuff and says:
device driver not found: 'OEMCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selectedthis aboards the installation`?
plz hlp, I am not stupid just sees so :)
device driver not found: 'OEMCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected
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I don't like the sound of that message. Seems that you are inbetween a rock and a hard place.
Possibly the best way around this problem is to remove the hard drive and using an inexpensive adaptor temporally install it into a desktop computer. Then you will be able to format the drive and make it bootable (Dos commmand 'sys'). You can also copy the windows 98 folder from the install CDROM tp the laptop drive.
Once you put the drive back into the laptop you can boot to dos, change directory to the win98 one and run setup from there.
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"device driver not found: 'OEMCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected".....as you are using a PCMCIA CD Drive, W98SE does not include the drivers. You need to find a way to load the correct driver.
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I'm going to email you a file that I hope will contain the correct driver. I've also included the other files necessary to load the driver.
It's zipped so extract it with something like winzip. There'll be nine files. You'll need to create a bootable cd with those files on it. When you burn the cd, make sure the files are in the root directory of the cd--you'll need to copy them to the HD and that will be less confusing than if you they're in a folder on the cd.
Then boot the computer with that cd. You'll be able to tell if the driver is accepted by observing the messages on the screen. Assuming they load OK then you'll need to partition and format the drive as necessary (maybe it's already partitioned and formatted). I've included fdisk to partition the drive as well as the format command.
When that's done you need to sys the hard drive to make it bootable. At the prompt type sys c: and enter. When that's done type copy x:\*.* c:\ and enter, where X is your cdrom drive letter (probably D).
If everything's OK up to that point then remove the cd and reboot the computer. It should boot from the HD and load the drivers. If so then put the 98 cd in the cdrom and type X:\setup and enter, where X is the cdrom drive letter indicated when you booted up. That should start the installation.
I hope that's not too confusing. Post back results.
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Thanks all for great comments! DAVEINCAPS: I'll try the procedure tonight and comment on its successfullness.
thanks again!
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!!!!
DAVEINCAPS: do you know if there will be a problem because my cd drive is a:(by default I guess) and the autoexec.bat you made has the drive as d:?
-->mscdex.exe /d:tscd001
or is the /d just a command to load a driver?
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ups sorry, now I realize that the last message I wrote was useless and stupid, sorry.,
but what makes me wonder is that when I run the autoexec.bat on another computer the message:
device driver not found: 'tscd001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selectedmaybe it just works when it boots ?
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Yes the D: means the CD is the d drive. This is what it should be in a laptop. You don't have any other drives.
Unless Dave didn't get the correct driver, this should work in the laptop. Another computer might have other drives.
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The d in d:tscd001 I think stands for 'driver' as in the driver name chosen for the cdrom. To specify a drive letter you have to add a /L:X where X is the drive letter you want.
Usually when booting from the 98 cd a temporary ram drive will be created at a: but I think the cdrom drive letter will be c: or d:, depending on if the hard drive is partitioned correctly. If you create a bootable cd I don't think that ram drive will be created and whatever dos prompt shows will be the cdrom drive letter.
I believe the cd driver I sent will only work with toshiba laptops. That's probably why it didn't work on another computer. I'm fairly certain that what I sent will work but I don't have a system like yours to test it on.
I got the driver from here. I used the boot3440.exe download which creates a bootdisk. From that I got the driver and used it in the file I sent you. I noticed the boot3440 download included a second driver that config.sys didn't load. If the first driver doesn't work then config.sys could be modified to use the second driver.
But post back after you've had a chance to try it on the laptop.
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Hi
I have tried everything...
both the drivers in boot3440.exe and a third driver "ts24xcdr.exe" found in w95port.exe , I cannot understand what driver it needs. maybe I should write toshiba and ask them?
thanks for all the help.
Peace...
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What is the model # of the cdrom and the card it's connected to?
What messages appeared on the screen when you attempted the installation with the two drivers?
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the cd-rom model is: Mobile CD-ROM pcmcia premium, designed for toshiba. 2793020. and link:
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/portege3480/options.asp?option=18&group=3&product=port3480&step=3the message has been:
device driver not found: 'tscd001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selectedcould it be that a pcmcia driver has to be installed first and then the cd-driver?
is it possible to load many cd drivers at the same time, infact I will try that now :)
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now my computer starts (the light goes on) the cd drive when booting from c:
i added a line in config:device=arccd.sys
and it says the following:PCCARD CDROM Driver 2.27 - ......
PCCARD CDROM unit Installed: IRQ 10but I still cant access the cd rom drive..?
I tried to write device=arccd.sys /d:tscd001
but it makes no difference if the /d is there...
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That line looks like it activates the PCMCIA card but it's not the cdrom driver. Just add the cdrom driver on the next line:
device=arccd.sys
device=TSCD0105.SYS /d:tscd001 /a(I'm not sure the /a is necessary)
Hopefully that'll do it.
I wasn't aware of that driver. I'll do some googling and see if the above two lines are correct.
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Well, apparently arccd.sys is the cdrom driver. It's a common generic one for PCMCIA card-connected cdroms. The config.sys line as you originally had it is what's recommended:
device=arccd.sys
and then in autoexec.bat the mscdex line should be:
MSCDEX /D:ARCCD01 /L:E > NUL
I've never seen a config.sys cdrom driver without the /D:driver name in it. But that's the way it's shown on several sites. (Those sites seemed to be associated with win 2000 and XP but I assume the loading of the dos drivers should be the same.)
The /L:E should set the cdrom drive letter at E:. You should be able to remove that and have the cdrom as the next available letter. Then again to be on the safe side it wouldn't hurt to keep it in there--at least long enough to verify the lines are configured correctly.
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I got the cd-rom to work and almost could install win98SE...
It installed almost completely, but after it updated the settings and restarted the computer , I beleive it didnt recognize the cd-rom anymore, even though the win98 installed asked if I waz installing win from a pcmcia port (PC card device). I pointed the drivers (arccd.sys) to win so it could take the PC card intoconsideration when installing 32bit drivers...
I guess the win installed messed up anyway...Have tp try it again but doesnt look good, maybe I could try to install win XP, maybe that install would be much smarter and not mess up with the cd drivers...
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Could you post back how you configured config.sys and autoexec.bat on the boot CD? I'd be interested in knowing the exact configuration.
Windows should have installed the necessary drivers on it's own. The arccd.sys is a dos driver and wouldn't work for windows. I'm not sure if there's some third step involved for laptops in finding and loading the windows drivers.
I found this at driverguide. The file is small enough so you can unzip it to a floppy disk. I downloaded it and it looks to be a compilation of files for various OS's. The 'setup.bat' file is for dos so don't use it.
You can still use drivers and all for user and password at driverguide.
The windows installation of the files should be through the .inf files. I'm hoping in your device manager the PCMCIA adapter is showing with a yellow ? or ! indicating drivers need to be installed. In that case choose to install/reinstall the drivers and point to the a: drive (or wherever you have the drivers). Hopefully it'll find what it needs there.
On the same site I linked to in #11 above but on a different page are several windows downloads. I couldn't tell if any related to the problem (Multimedia Port Replicator maybe?). But you can check there too.
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