Re: Old Sony Vaio and PCMCIA external CD-ROM

Sniper wrote:
E Brown wrote:
On 15 Jul 2006 12:31:57 -0700, "Sniper" <snipernest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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!.

Is your external drive a Sony PCG-CD51 or variant? Those are the
only one the BIOS will recognize as bootable drives. Way back in the
day, I managed to run recovery with another drive, but I had a lot
more practice with DOS, autoexec.bat and config.sys then. You will
need a DOS bootdisk and the DOS drivers for your CD-ROM drive for that
to work.
epbrown
--
"Everybody wants a normal life and a cool car;
most people will settle for the car." Chris Titus
2003 BMW 325i Black/Black, 2003 BMW Z4 Black/Black

Hi there, yes the drive is a PCG-CD51, it initially boots from
the windows 98 cd but then gets jammed 'looking' for the cd drive, even
though it is already booted off of it!. I have searched the internet
high and low for some sort of boot disk with these drivers but so far
no luck. Do you have any advice on how i can get an OS on this machine?
lol,


You might have a look at this similar problem if installing a Ghost image on a notebook with the same CD drive. This solution is essentially a network install.

http://www.faughnan.com/netdos.html

Q
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