win 95 won't start- dos won't recognise CD ROM drive letter!
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Name: Gail
Date: December 24, 1999 at 14:08:18 Pacific
Subject: win 95 won't start- dos won't recognise CD ROM drive letter!
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Comment: A few days ago my Win 95 would not start on my 760ed Thinkpad (IBM). I am trying to reinstall Win 95 from the 30 (or so) disks I made when I first got the machine. (hopefully I will save my files on the laptop from being deleted) The disks keep having problems installing system files...so I need to install Win 95 from the cd...
Problem: Dos does not recognise the drive for the CD. This is a removeable cdrom (swapable with the a: drive), and I HAVE sucessfully reinstalled the drivers, and edited Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. I edited the Autoexec.bat with:
DEVICE=C:\CDROM\IBMTPCD.SYS /r [/c] [/s]
and the Config.sys with:
C:CDROM\MCDEX.EXE /D:TPCD001[/m:15][/e][/v][/L:d]
the [/L:d] SHOULD tell it that d: is the drive, but after restarting the computer- it does not recognise the drive d:. I have edited a regular computer's Config.sys file with the /L:D before and it worked. If I try to edit this in Config.sys- upon boot up I get an error for that line. The IBM Thinkpad book says that the drive is specified in the Autoexec.bat file .
I have also gone to the IBM web to download the CD driver- but it tells you to run A:UINSTALL. This comes back as a bad command. The UINSTALL is supposed to edit the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys file automatically...
I don't know how to get it to recognise my CD drive. Please help!
If I reinstall Win 95- will I lose what I have in the hard drive?
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Name: Ronnie Ratt
Date: December 24, 1999 at 16:10:29 Pacific
Subject: win 95 won't start- dos won't recognise CD ROM drive letter! |
Reply: (edit)G'day Gail, try adding the /D:TPCD001 to the Autoexec, on my PC that is on both files, and are you sure the files are the right way 'round, that is the Device= on mine is in the Config.sys and the Mscdex.exe is in the Autoexec, maybe it's different for Thinkpads [never had one]. You might not need the drive letter switch, I removed mine and it assigns it anyway. Also if you reinstall Windows over your present setup you should not lose anything.
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Name: Rich Bucklew
Date: December 25, 1999 at 09:49:18 Pacific
Subject: win 95 won't start- dos won't recognise CD ROM drive letter!
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Reply: (edit)Sessons Greetings,
Have you tried to start windows in safe mode?
Press F8 as soon as you see windows starting message at start up.
Then you can use your trouble shooter in the help menu.
Hope this gets you some where.
Oh yes make sure you have enuf drives specified in you config.sys or autoexect.bat files usally the command is LAST DRIVE (dirve letter.)
RSB
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