LCM
10-12-2003, 07:49 PM
Hello:
I purchased some old business computers, which had the hard drives erased. All had CD-ROM drives, and I was told that if you use a Windows 98 Start-Up disk, it will provide CD-ROM support, so someone can use the CD-ROM Drive to install their operating system of choice.
This seems to be correct for one of the two computers I tried this with; it had a generic CD-ROM drive.
It did not work with the second, which has a Creative "Quad Speed" drive. I do not want to have to switch out the CD-ROM drive, or open the computer to find out the model. I did find a driver, sbide20.exe (sbide.sys), which I am hoping will work, but I do not know how to get the computer and start up disk to try that driver. I did copy it to the Windows 98 Start-Up disk.
I am getting this error -
... was able to load diagnostic tools to drive D.
Device Driver not found: MSCD001
No Valid CDROM device drivers selected.
Then it returns to an A: prompt
I hope this is the right forum. I am a novice on this subject matter and really need some detailed help. I do not know anything about DOS or Device Drivers.
Any help would be appreciated!
(P.S. This was also posted to the Operating System Forum under Windows 98, since I am not sure where it belongs.)
I purchased some old business computers, which had the hard drives erased. All had CD-ROM drives, and I was told that if you use a Windows 98 Start-Up disk, it will provide CD-ROM support, so someone can use the CD-ROM Drive to install their operating system of choice.
This seems to be correct for one of the two computers I tried this with; it had a generic CD-ROM drive.
It did not work with the second, which has a Creative "Quad Speed" drive. I do not want to have to switch out the CD-ROM drive, or open the computer to find out the model. I did find a driver, sbide20.exe (sbide.sys), which I am hoping will work, but I do not know how to get the computer and start up disk to try that driver. I did copy it to the Windows 98 Start-Up disk.
I am getting this error -
... was able to load diagnostic tools to drive D.
Device Driver not found: MSCD001
No Valid CDROM device drivers selected.
Then it returns to an A: prompt
I hope this is the right forum. I am a novice on this subject matter and really need some detailed help. I do not know anything about DOS or Device Drivers.
Any help would be appreciated!
(P.S. This was also posted to the Operating System Forum under Windows 98, since I am not sure where it belongs.)