I really need some help guys.

[mikef208]

Okay i just built a new system, I need to installt the OS, in order to do that I need to be able to use my CD-ROM, which happens to be a slot loading pioneer, It says it uses the default Windows CD ROM drivers. The only other computer Ihave is a compaq, and my floppy is screwed up on it, so how can I get the drivers onto my new computer?

 

[Budman]

Get yourself a boot disk at Bootdisk.com .

Or go into your bios & tell the computer to boot from your cd.

 

[bacillus]

bad link,sorry!

 

[Budman]

too slow bacillus.

 

[mikef208]

Oh yeah somebody told me to check bootdisk.com for something else, but I already have a startup disk, i just need the CD ROM drivers, are they on bootdisk.com? Will making the CDROM bootable make it able to be used even without the drivers?

 

[Budman]

Making the cd bootable in the bios will allow you to install the OS without the need for a floppy at all.

 

[mikef208]

okay i will try it, be back in a few minutes.

 

[mikef208]

Nothing doing guys, booting from the CDROM still gives me a missing OS error. Now what.

 

[Budman]

use the bootdisk,use my link above.

 

[mikef208]

What do i do with the bootdisk after it starts up?

 

[bacillus]

<< but I already have a startup disk, i just need the CD ROM drivers, are they on bootdisk >>


yes ,the generic drivers are on the boot disk. you need to reboot with the boot disk &amp; choose startup with cd support. at the A prompt type in the next letter above your cd drive letter to access your cd drive ie D: or E: &amp; then type setup &amp; press enter to load OS!
you need the next letter up because of the ram drive!

 

[mikef208]

I have tried that an dit says error reading drive &quot;X&quot;, Abort, retry, Fail?

 

[bacillus]

did you use the colon after the drive letter?

 

[mikef208]

yeah i think so, Okay wait a minute, I partitioned the hard drive before i did all this, so it said my hard drive was D and E, wouldn't that make my CDROM F:, I also have an LS 120, and a zip in it.


Where did this post go, it wasn't in the list i had to do a search for it?

 

[IamDavid]

Stupid question but did you format too?

 

[mikef208]

actually no, not yet. I seem to be having problems with fdisk, so i was planning on getting the OS installed then installing a third party partition program, then partitioning then formatting.

 

[bacillus]

you need to fdisk,make a partition active &amp; format before you can load your OS!

 

[mikef208]

I think i did, that, but yet all I could do was make one primary, and one extended with a logical in it, how do people get more than 2 partitions on a drive if it is like this. And okay i will do all of that, but I still have no way of installing the OS.

 

[Viperoni]

from the top:

create primary partition
create extended partition
create x number of logical partitions in extended
make the primary partition active
reboot
format c: /s (for system)

Set bios to boot from cdrom
pop in your win** disc and it should bootup fine.

 

[bacillus]

assuming you fdisked properly &amp; made the primary partition active, did you format C partition by typing format C:/S?
for the other partition you type format D:

 

[mikef208]

Okay i will try that, but it seemed like I would make the primary, then an extended, then it seemed like it would only allow 1 logical, no matter what size i make it, if I try to make another it says logical partition already exsists or something.

 

[mikef208]

Okay i did all that stuff, except when i tried to format it said bad command or file name, I noticed that format, wasn't on the bootdisk, why is that, this is a bootdisk I created myself a while ago, how can i format without it?

 

[mikef208]

I really need to know how to format this drive, and I am just too stupid to figure it out for myself, so i need your help. thanks.

 

[mikef208]

somebody has to know how I can do this.

 

[bacillus]

if the format command is not on your startup disk then I suggest you go to someone with a win98 pc &amp; make a new startup disk from
control panel/add|remove programs/startup disk!
you'll not get any futher without a proper startup floppy.