[RESOLVED] Can't find drive or drivers...

https://forums.windrivers.com/ I have an old 486 Compaq Prolinea 4/33 which was running win95, but nephew deleted some system files so I tried re-installing win95. Upon final rebooting after installation, the pc was locked up bigtime. I formatted the HD, used a boot floppy with mscdex so I would have cd access but it didnt work. Now I have formatted and have just dos 6.2 because nothing worked. The error I keep getting upon booting with mscdex.exe included in autoexec.bat and config.sys is: Cannot Find Drive....then it can't find the drivers to load (although they are included) What is going on? Am I missing a step? Why can't the pc "see" the drive? The cdrom worked great before I worked on it..LOL Please help me?

I forgot to mention what my intentions were with this pc...I want the cdrom to load (D https://forums.windrivers.com/ so I can use my windows 95 installation cd's to get it back to normal again. I have no original software with the pc (it was given to me by a local office, but worked just fine until my nephew accidently deleted some windows files). Thanks https://forums.windrivers.com/)

Sounds like you have an older CD Rom that used a proprietary driver. I would suggest looking it over to see what make & model it is then locate the correct driver for it.

Make sure the correct *.sys driver file is called in your config.sys. That should bring it back to life.

if you have access to a win98 machine go to start,settings,control panel,add and remove programs,startup disk.. this will create a boot disc for you that will load most cdrom drives from there boot old 486 in dos go to d:\ cd win95 md c:\win95 copy (windows95) d:\win95 c:\win95 if you have hard drive space about 48 meg's then go to root c:\ cd win95 from c:\win95 run setup WHAM win95 will setup without a hitch good luck finding all your drivers for that system

I've found these Win95 drivers for your model:

http://www.compaq.com/support/files/...cate/3_26.html

But, I didn't see anything there for your CD-ROM.

Anyway, Good Luck!
DonJ


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Hey, it's all FM to me!

Thank you all for your help https://forums.windrivers.com/) The CDROM was proprietary...so I opened up the case, got the sound card info,then I went to windriver.com and found the driver for the sound card. The whole installation cd was there available! All I had to do was type install....and BAM! I had CDROM and sound. Thank you all for your help https://forums.windrivers.com/))))