Re: Old Sony Vaio and PCMCIA external CD-ROM
- From: Quaoar <quaoar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:44:31 -0600
Sniper wrote:
Hi there,
I have an old Sony Vaio (2000) which has a PCMCIA
external CD-ROM drive. I just wiped the hard drive but am having great
difficulty installing windows 98. The computer boots initially from the
CD no problem but then when i select 'boot from CDrom' on the main
screen It gets stuck looking for my cd drive and says it cannot find
the device. I assume this is something to do with the fact that its
looking for an ATAPI device and the CDROM is not ATAPI. I have looked
around for bootdisks with the right drivers but have had no luck.If
anyone has one of these old Vaios or knows a solution please let me
know!.
Thanks
What model is this? Have you checked the Sony support site?
http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl?PRODTYPE=1,24,26,66,9,70,5,72
You might post this to the unofficial Sony Vaio site http://p200.ezboard.com/bunofficialsony -- there's not a lot of activity there but you might get lucky. My guess is that Sony originally supplied a boot disk (floppy or CD) with the real mode driver and someone might point you to a source.
Q
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