cd-rom driver not showing

southenjim · TweakNOOB Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

i hope someone can help i have a toshiba 230 cx laptop, i know its old but its been good to me in the past, the problem i have with it is that it has a changeble floppy/cd-rom, i fomated the hard drive and when i came to boot up with a boot up disk i have found that i can use the cd-rom as the driver is not there? if someone could help me out i would be very much greatful, the floppy works just not the cd-rom?, but it is trying to, how can i put the drivers back in? many thanks

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sickofsoyo · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

try using a windows 98SE boot-disk and clicking boot with CD-Rom support. Then put your CD in and type the command line of the .exe file to restore your system. I also have an old system(Compaq Presario 4716 P1 Razz

) I only have a 3 gig hdd so I constantly have to reformat.
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Fitz Goran · TweakNOOB Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 53

The problem is the cdrom driver can not see the cdrom when the floppy drive is installed instead of the cdrom drive, ie when booting from a floppy disk.

You need to copy the cdrom driver to the hard drive to enable you to boot up off of the hard drive and load the cdrom driver.

The windows 98 boot disk uses the cdrom driver named oakcdrom.sys.

-Create a drirectory on the hard drive called cdrom.
-Copy the oakcdrom.sys file into the cdrom directory on the hard drive.
-Copy the mscdex.exe file into the cdrom drirectory on the hard drive.

Then you need to create 2 files and place them in the root directory of the hard drive.

The file config.sys should contain...

device=c:\cdrom\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001

The file autoexec.bat should contain...

c:\cdrom\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001

You can create the autoexec.bat and config.sys on your working computer and save them on a floppy disk to be copied to the laptop.

This should allow the laptop to boot from the c: drive (if you formated it with the /s option to make it bootable) while the cdrom drive is installed in the laptop instead of the floppy drive.

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

i think he was trying to format....and now there is no OS on the drive at all..... that wont do him any good....
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Fitz Goran · TweakNOOB Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 53

I was under the impression he already formatted the hard drive.

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

well since this thread started in Jan and its now Jun, it may not make a difference. But at least the information is there for future people to see.

And yes he did have it formatted and then he couldnt boot from the cd-rom. The advice from Fitz would then allow the system to be booted from the cd-rom.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

yeah...oops....i see that now.....

wow....LOOK at date TH.....dammit
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