Re: Starting again

Michael Hopkins wrote:
> "Jock." <real_classs_a@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:9h17m11tc1p1p0tbrm17rjjea97pdibr4s@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On 29 Oct 2005 09:44:30 GMT, "Jeff Gaines"
>> <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> By way of a PS, you can download an .exe file to make a boot
>> floppy from:
>>
>> http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml
>
>
> Thanks, I've got a the legal boot floppy that came with the legal CD,
> but when I boot via the floppy it doesn't seem to recognise a driver
> for CD rom.
>
> I'm beginning to feel trapped in an unwinnable situation with this....
>
> Michael

Michael,

Go to www.bootdisk.com and download a bootable floppy from there for WIn 98
onto your desktop and then stick a nice clean (preferably new) floppy in the
drive and double click on the downloaded file icon and follow the
instructions.

This will give you a boot disk with a number of generic CD-ROM drivers on it
(along with all the other files needed).

By the Way, the boot floppy that came with your CD-ROM, is for installing
the OS on a brand new drive - I could never get mine to work when doing a
reformat.


Brian G


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