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lemarr

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I am working on an AST Advantage 9303 model# 503080-301 computer. The problem is that the cdrom drive that came with it was replaced with a 32X Teac. Now the rebuild cd won't work because the rebuild boot disk dosn't see the cdrom drive. Some how I got to get the boot disk to see the cdrom drive.

Any ideas

Thanks
 
Was there also a floppy for the restore disk, meaning it ran the floppy, loaded the cdrom driver, then proceeded the restore? If that is the case, maybe you can edit the original floppy with the driver for the new cdrom drive. Or you could just boot off of a Win98 startup disk, which will load the driver then see if you can run the setup on the restore disk manualy.
 
Yep there was a floppy that came with the system that loads the cdrom driver. That's my problem. The old cdrom was replaced with the new Teac. I tried to boot from Windows 98 boot disk but the files on the cd restore are in a folder and there are 4 files with the .exe extention and it has to use the boot floppy to run them. I looked at the autoexec.bat files that load the cdrom drivers and got lost real fast. I just couldn't figure out what to edit. I never really got into Dos that much.

Thanks
 
Well, you need to copy the one from the windows 98 startup disk and rename it exactly what the old driver was, cdrom.sys, or something like that. For it to function, it will need to boot the old floppy with the updated driver. I believe open the autoexec.bat and choose edit, see what is in there and edit as necessary. You should backup the original floppy and edit your copy. If you can copy the floppy to a zipped folder and email it to me, I'll take a look at it and see if I can help edit it.
 
lemarr, try the edited disk I sent you back. Extract it to a clean floppy and boot from it with restore cd in the drive. Let me know if it works. It's been a loooooong time since I had to do anything like that. 🙂
 
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