Re: Old Sony Vaio and PCMCIA external CD-ROM
- From: Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:14:11 +0200
Sniper wrote:
E Brown wrote:I have had success with this by installing
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,
form harddisk. With the additional advantage
that you dont need the cd later.
With fdisk , make a primary partition,for C,
then a small extended partion of 800MB-1GB,
for disk D and xcopy the complete CD to that.
Then install from that.
There is a DOS program on your 98SE disk, to
produce an install floppy , it takes some
searching.
There also seems to be a bootdisk on
www.bootdisk.com .
For pcmia you also need cardware software,
which should have come with the laptop.
After you add a few things to config.sys
you can access pcmia disks,ethernet etcetera.
My config.sys:
[MENU]
menuitem=DOS,DOS/WINDOWS
menuitem=SOCKET,DOS/WINDOWS + Socket and Card Service
[DOS]
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
[SOCKET]
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=C000-C7FF D=64
[COMMON]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
COUNTRY=044,437,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
FILES=30
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\POWER.EXE ADV:REG
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P
lastdrive=m
[SOCKET]
REM ---- Following lines added by CardWare Setup
DEVICE=C:\CARDWARE\DPMS.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\SSPCIC.EXE
DEVICE = C:\CARDWARE\PCCS.EXE
DEVICE = C:\CARDWARE\PCRM.EXE /AUTODETECT
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCENABLE.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCDISK.EXE
REM ---- Previous lines added by CardWare Setup
[COMMON]
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
STACKS=9,256
.
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