No CD found from Win 98 Boot Disk

[PhylloDo]

When I boot to my floppy, I get a message:

Device driver not found: "MSCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected.

The drive works fine in Win 98. I can't get into the BIOS.

I'm trying to format the drive and reinstall Windows

Thanks,
PhylloDo.

 

[Yomicron]

I would bet that your floppy is corrupt. Try making a new boot disk using a new floppy and see if that works.

 

[corkyg]

Possibly your boot floppy is incomplete or corrupted. The CD ROM driver (MSCDEX.EXE) is found in the OAKCDROM.SYS file. When it boots, it first opens a menu screen where you choose with or without CD drive support.

Can you create or borrow another Win98 Emergency Boot Disk?

 

[Magicthyse]

I've had problems with an ancient PC of mine (now thankfully gone to the great scrapheap in the sky) whose CD-ROM wasn't recognized by the W98 Floppy. After I replaced the CD-ROM drive, all was smiles. If the suggestions above fail, this could be your problem.

 

[PhylloDo]

Created a new one..... No good.

Going to try sticking in a new drive.

Any other suggestions?

 

[SemperFi]

I have seen a couple of cdroms not work on the generic drivers that 98 supplies. Although those were old when 98 came out new.

Semper Fi

 

[Nocturnal]

either your FDD is corrupt, or your disk is corrupt. that happend to me when my fdd drive was fscked.

 

[Maggotry]

What brand is the CD-ROM? SemperFi is right. I had tons of trouble with a panasonic drive. Turns out, it uses proprietary drivers. Is this an old or new CD drive? I think modern CD-ROMS, by all manufacturers, can use the Oak drivers.

 

[PhylloDo]

Oh it's old all right. Compaq and Matsushita are the only names that I can recognize. Manufactured in January 1996.

I tried it with another CD drive and it worked. Although I'm having problems installing Windows now.

That's what you get for leaving a project until the last minute....

Thanks for everyone's help.

 

[Maggotry]

<< Matsushita >>


I know for a fact that Matsushita uses proprietary drivers.

 

[Woodie]

FYI, and all the others reading this....look for CDGod55.exe...it creates a bootable diskette, which has >40 different CD drivers, which you can try in turn, until you find the one that works w/ your CD. Does NOT require reboots to try a different driver!

I'm not the author, but a very happy user.

 

[nihil]

<< FYI, and all the others reading this....look for CDGod55.exe...it creates a bootable diskette, which has >40 different CD drivers, which you can try in turn, until you find the one that works w/ your CD. Does NOT require reboots to try a different driver!

I'm not the author, but a very happy user. >>



wow, thanks for that info. =)

for everyone else i found the CDGod site and linked it for you.