Re: Starting again

On 29/10/2005 Michael Hopkins wrote:

> I'm not a real techie, but I think the problem is that the CD Rom
> isn't being read properly, for some reason.
>
> As far as I can remember, I didn't have any problems with the CD Rom
> before the crash, but when trying Jeff's suggestions it won't
> recognise the CD ROm, as if there was no driver. When trying Dav's
> way, it was easy to set the CD Rom as the main boot in the BIOS, but
> it then booted as if the CD Rom waas empty.


I suppose it is possible that the CD ROM driver on the recovery floppy
is not compatible with your drive, although it's a pretty generic
driver.

The CD itself could be dirty/scratched/defective - can you try to read
it in another PC?

Have you a friend with a PC that could help you make a custom boot
floppy with the proper drivers on it?

I am still sceptical about booting from a W98 CD, although Dave
disagrees with me :-) The presence of an autorun.inf file means it
should autostart in Windows but not that it is bootable.

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Jeff Gaines - Damerham Hampshire UK
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