My Win98 Boot Disk cannot see my CD-ROM Drives?? Please Help

[net1994]

I just created a Win 98 Boot floppy disk and then restarted the PC. I selected 'Start Windows 98 with CD-ROM Support' option, but I cannot use my CD drive?? While booting the diskette, I get the message after it starts, 'CD-ROM Drive not found, abort operation.' The only thing I can think of is that just last month I installed a new HD, and it came with a free ATA-100 controller card. To use this, I had to re-hook all of my IDE devices to the ATA100 card, instead of my Motherboard. The only thing I can think of is that the boot floppy is looking for the CD-ROM drive attached to the MB, and not the ATA100 card. But this is just a guess? Will I have to open up my PC and take the IDE Secondary cable off the ATA card and put it back into my Motherboards IDE 2 slot?? Will this even work?

Any ideas? Please help. Thanks

 

[bernse]

Your drive isn't being recognized. Get a boot disk with CD rom support like at http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/win98/install/clean.html

and boot with it. That should cure your problem.

 

[net1994]

Appreciate the URL tip bernse, but when I got to the site, I get a 404 Error message. Any idea on any other sites or tips? Thanks.

 

[bernse]

Hmmm. I have a boot disk I always use. I can zip it and email it if you like. Advise with addy.

 

[net1994]

you can e-mail me the ZIP at net1994@juno.com Thanks a lot.

 

[bernse]

On its way

 

[BuckMaster]

Your windows 98 bootdisk should have a generic set cd-rom drivers on it. If not I would be checking your cables and other hardware and settings. I myself have used windows 98 bootdisk 100's of times and it has always loaded the cd-rom drivers. Maybe I have just been lucky.

Good Luck!

 

[bacillus]

<< Will I have to open up my PC and take the IDE Secondary cable off the ATA card and put it back into my Motherboards IDE 2 slot? >>


an emphatic yes! will not work attached to controller card.

 

[weihao]

Yeah!. i think you better go into ur casing to unplug the new card from there!hahaha

 

[Kp99]

-Boot up using the Win98/98SE Boot Disk. When you reach the Startup Menu where you can select whether to start the computer with or without CD Rom Support, press the &quot;F5&quot; Key. This will bring you to an A:> prompt.

-Type &quot;REN ASPI2DOS.SYS ASPI2DOS.OLD&quot; (without quotations) and then press the &quot;Enter&quot; key.

-Type &quot;REN ASPI4DOS.SYS ASPI4DOS.OLD&quot; (without quotations) and then press the &quot;Enter&quot; key.

-Type &quot;REN ASPI8DOS.SYS ASPI8DOS.OLD&quot; (without quotations) and then press the &quot;Enter&quot; key.

-Type &quot;REN ASPI8U2.SYS ASPI8U2.OLD&quot; (without quotations) and then press the &quot;Enter&quot; key.

-Type &quot;REN ASPICD.SYS ASPICD.OLD&quot; (without quotations) and then press the &quot;Enter&quot; key.

-Press &quot;Ctrl-Alt-Del&quot; to restart the computer.

The process can be reversed if you plan to use the disk to Boot SCSI devices in the future.