98 instal lost cdrom ?

[Al]

Installed 98se from cd to a p120 with a hard drive partitioned c and d, when windows restarts to look for hardware drivers it won't browse to e:\ where my cd was when booting from a:\ to a dos boot disk with generic cd driver.(only partitions c and d ).

The PCI/IDE controller in device manager shows error 15 (i think it was)
and indicates a resource conflict.

Is there anything in the bios that would have worked in the previous 98 1st edition installation, (although in limp/dos mode), that would have problems working with the new 98se installion ??? (serial/lpt irqs ?)

Or would installing 95 then updating to 98se be any better???

OOOrrrr, should i delete the d:\partition and then go reinstall???

All ideas greatly appreciated.

Al

[Rick]

What you are running into here is the lack of a driver for the cd-rom in 98se at the first bootup.
When 98 loads the first time and finds new hardware .
One of the things it is finding is the cd-rom without a dos driver and doesn’t know how to access the drive without the drivers.

The conflict could be the lack of device drivers fir the chipset on the mother board .
Acpi and pci route drivers

One possible solution to get win98 to search the cd-rom would be to add the generic cd-rom drivers and mscdex to your config.sys and autoexec.bat file on your Boot drive.


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[Waltah]

I've just been through a flavor of this problem. Had a bare PII-333 and wanted to put win 95 on it from CDROM. The CDROM isn't bootable tho. I made a Win 95se start diskette on my wife's HP machine; it contains a bunch of generic CD ROM drivers. When I booted the diskette it installed a RAM (memory) drive at D: and loaded it with diagnostics, then set up the CDROM at E: I could now do E:Setup to install WIN 95 and W95 installed its own CDROM drivers at D: Only bad effect is the WIN still expects to find its CD's at E so whenever I have to add another feature, I have to tell it no, your CDROM is at D.

Maybe that illuminates things a little. I'd be greatful if someone could tell me how to give WIN the clue about where it's CDROM drive is now, so it won't keep looking in the wrong place.

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Walt

[Waltah]

ACCCCKkkkkk! Sorry, the sentence should have read:
"I made a Win ***98se*** start diskette ..." My WIN95b start diskette didn't have the CDROM drivers, that's why I couldn't get going that way.

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Walt

[mjc]

You can also copy the files off the CD onto the hard drive after booting with the bootdisk, then install from the harddrive, this solves 2 problems...one CD-rom driver problems and then Win looking for the install disk everytime you add or change something.

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mjc
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