Hi Guys,
I am trying out a new 2nd hand comp, PIII 500Mhz. I had to install h/drive, floppy and cdrom, bcos they were missing. I used my old win95 boot disk, I actually want win95 and linux on board. So I did the usual things, Fdisk the h/d and format it. Next step plan to load the o/s. So boot to A:, then change to D: to check the cdrom is reading the cd. Problem is, D: gives the message, "invalid drive specification" as do all letters onwards. So the cdrom is not being recognised, yet the BIOS reads it correctly as an LG atapi cdrom as a master on the 2nd IDE slot, which is where it is. Can someone please tell me what I can do. I know the cdrom works cos I took it from my other computer, the cables are installed correctly etc etc, and I have adjusted the boot sequence in the BIOS numerous times to try to sort the problem from there. I also tryed using my win98 startup disk, which has the feature "start the computer with cdrom support", but it gives me the message "no drives found" and aborts loading the driver(MSCD001).
Its over to u now, cos I am out of ideas, and not getting anywhere with my own troubleshooting.
Thanks
I am trying out a new 2nd hand comp, PIII 500Mhz. I had to install h/drive, floppy and cdrom, bcos they were missing. I used my old win95 boot disk, I actually want win95 and linux on board. So I did the usual things, Fdisk the h/d and format it. Next step plan to load the o/s. So boot to A:, then change to D: to check the cdrom is reading the cd. Problem is, D: gives the message, "invalid drive specification" as do all letters onwards. So the cdrom is not being recognised, yet the BIOS reads it correctly as an LG atapi cdrom as a master on the 2nd IDE slot, which is where it is. Can someone please tell me what I can do. I know the cdrom works cos I took it from my other computer, the cables are installed correctly etc etc, and I have adjusted the boot sequence in the BIOS numerous times to try to sort the problem from there. I also tryed using my win98 startup disk, which has the feature "start the computer with cdrom support", but it gives me the message "no drives found" and aborts loading the driver(MSCD001).
Its over to u now, cos I am out of ideas, and not getting anywhere with my own troubleshooting.
Thanks
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