Problems after reformatting

[barndoor]

Hello. I have been trying all day to sort this out & now have to ask for help. I have an old P133 which had 2 HDD & CD-ROM. Computer started to run slow so I thought to reinstall Win 98SE from scratch by fdisk & reformatting HDD. The second HDD was compressed & when I tried to uncompress it spat the dummy. No problem..just remove that drive & do what I was going to do. Have reformatted OK but in trying to reload Win 98 it does not recognise E drive. Have checked all connections (OK) have tried other CD-ROM's (no difference). Keep getting error CDR101. Have downloaded & tried to instal the driver again, but still no go. No more ideas!!!!

[mektek]

With the other HDD removed it may have moved your CD to the next logical drive letter which will now be D:\

[Kim Tang]

In Win98 you might have to manually change the drive letter in Autoexec.bat or the config.sys file
Hth

Kim

[barndoor]

I have also tried to use D drive ...no good. Apart from the error message CDR101 it indicates an invalid drive.

[barndoor]

To Kim Tang. I cant load WIN98. Is there somne way I can mod these files before loading?

[cigarman]

Boot up using a Win 98 start up disk with CDROM support.  You should remove your 2nd hdd so that you have only one hdd, your system will default that to C: so the CDROM will be D:  the bootup floppy disk should have the CDROM drive defaulted to D: thus your CDROM driver will load and look for D: drive.  Once you have the CD working you can begin loading Win98.

If you don't have a win98 startup disk then you may have a friend with a PC running on Win98 he can make you a startup disk in Windows run command type format a: /s to transfer the system files and you can add your own CDROM driver if his is not compatible with your.
HTHs.

Kim

[barndoor]

thx to all who offered suggestions. I have solved problem now...it appears to be a combination of a bad IDE cable & a dirty CD ROM

[cigarman]

Thankyou for the feed back, we are glad to help.