Summary: You need to have the CD drivers loading in DOS at start-up, which they are not now doing. There are several ways to get them there, however, one of t...
Summary: I am having problems with my computer. It is a DOS 6 machine and every time I type in "e:" (CD-ROM) in DOS it says "Invalid drive specification", but...
Summary: I have a Thinkpad 760xl. It has an internal CD-Rom drive. No Floppy. How can I get the CD-Rom to be recognized. The computer has no OS installed. ...
Summary: My old 486 can't start and get me this message after making for a while some worrying noises as if there were pellets rattling in my computer. Booti...
Summary: I just got a used hard drive with nothing on it but the Windows 98 version of DOS. The only Windows version I had to install was Windows 3.1, so I ha...
Summary: I formatted my hard drive (had NT 4.0 earlier on it)using FDISK in 98 bootdisk. I deleted the C drive partition and recreated it. Now my hard disk has...
Summary: I previously asked a question about my Thinkpad 760xl. No floppy drive and CD is not recognized. It has no OS installed. It was suggested I hook up an...
Summary: I am having trouble. I backed up my files then formatted my hard drive. What do I do next? When I boot from floppy, I select the cd-rom assistance, i...
Summary: 1) installed cd-rom 2) boot up recognized it 3) installed proper drivers and installation files from source on internet 4) when type "d:" get the foll...
Summary: I just bought a celeron 700mhz, Houston motherboard computer with a 20gb drive. Anyway, I bought it with nothing installed. I can boot to a disk (I ...
Summary: Claude and Ronin, thank you for your suggestions. I do want to exhaust all my options before reformatting my hard drive. Can someone give me the exac...
Summary: when i type in a dos prompt d:\ it tells me invalid drive specification when i type in a a:\prompt the floppy drive light turns on then of then nothin...
Summary: I have two hard drives C and D and my CD drive is letter E. I want to format c and reinstall windows but when in dos drive E is an 'invalid drive spe...
Summary: right now it reads C:\WINDOWS>, but how do get to the D drive. I pressed D:/ ,but it didn't even work it said invalid drive specifications. Can someb...
Summary: I deleted my C drive and my D drive and win95. I have dos and that is all. so when i ever i try to boot to the C drive i get INVALID DRIVE SP...
Summary: Hi Guys! thanks for the prompt reply. The exact error message was This following file is missing or corrupted, command.com. So I got a Windows 95 Star...
Summary: Hi folks I'm using a removable drive to store important data. There was a power outtage this afternoon. Since then I cannot access the data on the d...
Summary: I have formatted my drive by not using Format C: \s (I used Format C:)which I now regret. I am booting with a DOS 5.0 boot disk and I can type C:\ and...
Summary: I've got a new Maxtor Fireball 3 hard drive that was a warranty replacement. I want to use it to store backup images and data. Therefore I want to be ...
Summary: I have a new laptop with no software. I used my emergency boot disk from my desktop but it does not recognize my cdrom drive. What can I do to get th...
Summary: thank you for your advise it is much greatly appreciated. however, i am still at a loss for my pc still doesn't work. my computer is a pentium 75 bou...
Summary: I've been working on this one for 8 hours now! Please HELP!! I have two hard drives: the first contains Win2K on C: primary partition and has two logi...
Summary: I have assembled a PC with a 733 Mhz P3 chip, 128 Mb RAM, and a 40 Gb hard drive. I installed Windows 2000 Professional, but it is not compatible w...
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