Cannot get CD recognized with boot disk

[kjacobs]

Here's the deal:
I have a new HD that I have fdisked but not formatted or partitioned because the HD install disk said I could do that once W2000 loaded.

I have created several sets of the W2000 boot disks but they cannot recognize the CD which is Liteon. I have looked for a driver for the Liteon with no success. I have also downloaded several boot disks and cannot get any to recognize the CD. I have changed the drive in the autoexec and config on the floppy to try diferent drive letters. When I boot using a w95, or w95, or winMe boot, the ram drive is "D". Setting the cd drive to E does not work.

Does it make a difference what the BIOS says?

I am keeping my old HD which runs W98 fine. So I can access the internet, make boot disks, etc.

This is driving me nuts! Ijust want to get the CD recognized in order to install W2000.

Thanks.

Ken

 

[drag]

Just as long as the bios is correctly detecting the cdrom, it's probable not that. maybe double check the jumper settings, or if it's setup to autodetect the drives in the bios, specify it instead, or visa versa. Doesn't microsoft keep "approved" w2k hardware lists or something like that?

 

[kjacobs]

I am still not finding the CD drive with a win98 boot disk so I think the problem is in the syntax of the autoexec or config files. I don;t think it is limited to W2k therefore. BTW the cd drive works fine when I boot up to w98 from the original hard drive.

Ken

 

[kjacobs]

Can I boot up in win98 on the boot HD and then install win2000 on the slave hd? Then swap the drives and reboot?

Stupid question?

Ken

 

[bacillus]

have you tried just changing the bios boot order to cdrom first & try booting from the win2k cd which is bootable?

 

[kjacobs]

I tried that and it said the W2K CD was not a system disk. It IS an upgrade CD. I have an upgrade 98 CD and a full w95 CD.

 

[13black]

Not sure if this will help bet here goes.
MSCDEX
Provides access to CD-ROM drives.

Syntax:
MSCDEX [/E/K/S/V] [/Driver ... ] [/L:letter] [/M:buffers]

/E Forces the CD-ROM driver to use expanded memory, if available, to store sector buffers.
/K Forces Dos to recognize CD-ROM discs encoded in Kanji.
/S Enables sharing of CD-ROM drives on networks
/V Forces memory statistics to be displayed on start-up
/Driver The driver signature of the CD-ROM device driver (assigned when the device is loaded in config.sys).
/L:letter The drive letter to assign to the first CD-ROM drive. If there is more than one drive, the additional drives are assigned subsequent available drive letters.
M:buffers The number of sector buffers.

The first "D:" is not the drive letter, it comes later. You also have to edit the config.sys to match any changes to the autoexec.bat.
Example Using the OakCDROM generic CD-ROM driver

Make a folder called C:\CDROM, if it doesn?t already exist

Download the oakcdrom.sys driver file and save it in C:\CDROM

Edit CONFIG.SYS and make (or edit) a line to say DEVICE=C:\CDROM\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000

Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and make (or edit) a line to say MSCDEX /D:MSCD000

Restart the computer

 

[kjacobs]

Thanks for the detailed help! I finally figured out it was MY fault. The only way I had gotten my zip drive to work was to put the CD on a SEPARATE IDE controller card. That was 18 months ago so i forgot the details. No wonder the boot disk could not find it!

Thanks again.

Ken