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HELP! Trying to install WIN98 on my laptop with external CD-ROM!

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Pin2

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Help me please! I am trying to install WIN98 again on my laptop but the CD-ROM is external and I can only use it with a PCMCIA EIDE Adapter. When I use the WIN98 startup disk and click on option 1 with CD-ROM support it does not detect the drive. How do I fix this since I don't have built in CR-ROM on my laptop.

Pin2
 
Hmmmmm, DOS doesn't by default have PCMCIA support. Does your Adapter have DOS drivers? If they do you will have to put those drivers on the 98 Startup Disk, and then modify Config.sys and Autoexec.bat to support them, before u can use the CD-ROM. The drivers on the 98 Startup disk only search the Internal IDE channels.
 
I found the DOS drivers for this adapter. Now how do I edit the start up disk so it can detect the PCMCIA Adapter? Your help will be great!

Pin2
 
another thing to do is to (1) Make sure you have at least two partitions on the hard drive (c and d for example) and make at least one of them bootable (2) copy all the cab files to the hard drive on one of the partitions (3) reboot the computer, wipe the other partition and reinstall using the cab files on the disk... you may have to do something like format one of the partitions with dos if you don't have an OS that you can install from.
 
Sometimes dos drivers for a PCMCIA cdrom come with an activator program. The activator program will activate the card so it can be used in dos. You won't have enough room on a windows startup disk, you'll have to format a disk and add system files. I went through trying to find a generic PCMCIA dos driver and ended up paying for it, hope you find an activator, or can get the drivers from your laptop manufacturer.
 
is this the kind of cd-rom that can be swapped with the floppy bay? if it is...throw in the cd-rom and boot to the cd directly (setting in the bios)...no need for the startup disk.
 
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