I am trying to format a hard drive and install WIN 98. I am using a WIN 98 Startup disk to boot the system. However the cd-rom drive is not recognized and the cd-rom drivers are not installed. The system either had a virus or a major corruption as most of the exe files will not run. When I do start the system in WIN 98, the cd-rom drive is recognized. The cd drive is Hitachi DVD model GD-5000. HELP.
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AskWoody_MVPJuly 21, 2002 at 5:50 pm #602614When you formated the drive you threw away
the needed drivers. If you have a Windows98 syartup disk you may be able to use the default CD drivers that are on it. If not you will need to copy the needed “Real mode” drivers for your CD.
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AskWoody_MVPJuly 21, 2002 at 5:59 pm #602617Being a DVD you may have problems. You need to go to the OEM of the DVD and see if they have any for download.
When you boot to the Win98 startup disk, are you selecting “with CD support”?
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AskWoody LoungerJuly 23, 2002 at 3:25 pm #603200When I turn the system on “normally”, the startup messages says that the Primary and Secondary Master and Slave were not detected. However, on the next “page” it shows the hard drive and the CD drive. And I can use the cd drive. When I start the system with the WIN 98 Startup disk, I get a message saying that no cd drive was detected and then another message saying that the cd drivers were not installed.
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WSFish
AskWoody LoungerJuly 23, 2002 at 3:32 pm #603205This is some weird stuff going on here.
Try getting into the BIOS setup and setting everything back to default or factory setup. Then try an auto-detect of devices (usually an option straight off the main menu in the BIOS setup). It almost certainly won’t see the CD/DVD device but doing this will clear out any old infomation.
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AskWoody LoungerJuly 23, 2002 at 9:14 pm #603301First of all, you and Fish are talking about what seems to me to be TWO separate problems. When you start the system “normally” as you called it, and you get the initial messages about the Primary and Secondary NOT DETECTED, makes me wonder if you have a plugin IDE card in the machine, which would not be recognized by the BIOS. Then, when that card initializes, it would cause the hard drive(s) to be properly installed. I don’t know if this is of concern to you YET.
What you STILL need is a boot diskette that has a CD driver on it with the proper Autoexec.Bat to load that driver. I have a Win98 boot diskette that works on 99.99% of the systems I use it on. If you will allow me to send you TWO files to your email address, I’ll send you a CD driver and an Autoexec.Bat that you could copy to your boot disk. If you want to do this, I would make a copy of your boot diskette first, so we don’t burn your bridges, so to speak.
On the other hand, I have never tried this with a DVD DRIVE, so it may not work and you’d be wasting your time. It would be (I guess) more effecient if you could locate a real-mode driver for YOUR drive (usually a .SYS file), and add it to your boot disk. Post back here if you want me to email those two files. Don’t put your email address in the post, just for your privacy sake. We can deal with that later.
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AskWoody LoungerJuly 24, 2002 at 1:09 pm #603478If you look in http://www.driverguide.com[/url%5D, with a bit of searching you’ll find the DOS drivers for your ‘5000. At the membership login, you’ll be prompted for a user name and password. There’s no charge, but you have to register to get the DRIVERS, that’s ALL.
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