nothing to be embarassed about, reminds of the days when I started out! in fact, this senario sounds all too familiar. hmmm LOL
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nothing to be embarassed about, reminds of the days when I started out! in fact, this senario sounds all too familiar. hmmm LOL
Drats....nothing helps, got the win95b boot disk downloaded and made..put win95b in the cd-rom and booted the system....still get an error message :
DISKETTE BOOT FAILURE
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key when ready_ <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">
Well now that kinda puts me at a loss, give me more info on the computer, make, model, sound card, cd-rom, and any thing else that might help to ID the problem, FCC ID # help,
This is the info given when I boot up the pc.
AMIBIOS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
MAIN PROCESSOR : CX486S2
NUMERIC PROCESSOR : PRESENT
FLOPPY DRIVE A : PRESENT
BASE MEMORY SIZE : 640 KB
EXT MEMORY SIZE : 15360 KB
HARD DISK TYPE : 47
256 KB CACHE MEMORY
66MHz DX2 CPU
128 K SHADOW RAM
CD-ROM 24 MAX US DRIVE
As far as sound cards and other internal components and cards I don't know for sure.
Lots of help I am lol.
This sux cuz I have formatted this pc a million times and now either I can't remember what I am doing or else the software I need was corrupted by a virus that I got from a used hard drive <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0"> .
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It is a Generic tower and ther are no numbers or anything on it. The only model # I can see is on the power supply box. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">
Well from what I see from this is the chip is a Cyrix, with 16meg of memory, the mem is most likley 30 pin simm's.. Is the CD-Rom on a card or on the main board connected to the hard drive as a slave.Quote:
Originally posted by Hobit ®:
<STRONG>This is the info given when I boot up the pc.
AMIBIOS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
MAIN PROCESSOR : CX486S2
NUMERIC PROCESSOR : PRESENT
FLOPPY DRIVE A : PRESENT
BASE MEMORY SIZE : 640 KB
EXT MEMORY SIZE : 15360 KB
HARD DISK TYPE : 47
256 KB CACHE MEMORY
66MHz DX2 CPU
128 K SHADOW RAM
CD-ROM 24 MAX US DRIVE</STRONG>
Sorry for the long post but here goes:
this is what the config.sys looks like:
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem :off
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1f0,14
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,15
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:170,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,12
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:1e8,11
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana /P:168,9
LASTDRIVE=Z
You will need to change some of this to make it work for your machine. remove the "rem" from in front of the line either one at a time or all at once. than try once more. If that dose not work try replacing "device=cd1.sys" with "device=cd2.sys" and so on up to "cd4.sys".
The autoexec.bat should be ok. You can use edit.com on the disk to make any changes to the config.sys that you need to make. the disk has a lot of util. that can be used to fdisk, format, scandisk among others that will be of help to you for this task.. hope it works..
Sly
Thanks for the info and I really appreciate all the help you have given me......but I cannot access the c or a drives of this machine.....however I do have a question...I have Gateway and I know that it is like a one piece thing inside (motherboard, modem,etc), all one piece and I'm not sure about the cable ribbon but if there is more than one plug on the ribbon is there a way I can install the other hard drive into my working machine and then copy data to the non working hard drive to make it operational? Sounds dumb maybe but just a thought....lol <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">
. . . Sorry for the post Tried to delete it but was unable - had to settle for edit.
Check the bios, make sure the A drive is entered as 1.44 floppy, and the C drive is set to the drive spec., or set to user/autoQuote:
Originally posted by Hobit ®:
<STRONG>Thanks for the info and I really appreciate all the help you have given me......but I cannot access the c or a drives of this machine.....however I do have a question...I have Gateway and I know that it is like a one piece thing inside (motherboard, modem,etc), all one piece and I'm not sure about the cable ribbon but if there is more than one plug on the ribbon is there a way I can install the other hard drive into my working machine and then copy data to the non working hard drive to make it operational? Sounds dumb maybe but just a thought....lol <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"></STRONG>
Yes you can take another cabel with three (3) connectors and use it. Make sure to set master and slave on both drives..
But you would better off taking the new drive out replace it with the old one and install Win9x from there.. if the gateway is win98 make a bootdisk first.
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Actually Hobit this is not a bad idea at all. You can put your hard-drive into the working machine to install win95 on it but here is what you'll want to do. Pull the hard-drive out of your working machine and set it aside to avoid any chance of accidental software corruption. Install the hard-drive out of your non-working pc into the good one in the same spot on the ribbon cable as the original one was. Since the jumper on the hard drive should already be set to master then the only change you will need to make is in the bios. You'll have to change the bios on your good machine so that it recognizes the right hard drive. If the bios is not too old then it should have an option to automatically detect the drive. Once this is done then you should be able to install Win95 on the drive as I mentioned in the earlier post, however, that is all I would do to it in this machine. Once Win95 itself is loaded, put it back in the old machine to see if it works. It may begin to install software for com ports, pci cards, etc. again (this is normal) so have the Win95 cd in the cd-rom drive when it begins to boot. Let me know what happens.Quote:
Originally posted by Hobit ®:
<STRONG>Thanks for the info and I really appreciate all the help you have given me......but I cannot access the c or a drives of this machine.....however I do have a question...I have Gateway and I know that it is like a one piece thing inside (motherboard, modem,etc), all one piece and I'm not sure about the cable ribbon but if there is more than one plug on the ribbon is there a way I can install the other hard drive into my working machine and then copy data to the non working hard drive to make it operational? Sounds dumb maybe but just a thought....lol <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"></STRONG>
This may sound weird, but I have ran across this problem on some of my servers.
Get A can of "canned air" (for cleaning electronic equipment) and, with the power off, blow out the insides of your floppy drive (from the front). Sometimes, based on your case design, the airflow through the floppy drive will deposit dust on the heads and cause disk read errors. Some of my systems only see a floppy every six months, and on two of them I have to do this every time or else they won't read the disk.
Good Luck! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">
Ok here's what happened....I took out my hard drive and installed the old hard drive, with the win95b boot disk in A: and the win 95b cd in the cd-rom drive....puter said booting to win95 then I could not access the C: drive at all. Well now I have both hard drives set up in my machine and in device manager it says I have 2 hard drives installed but in My Comouter it only finds oneof them....What i need to know now I think is how to specify a drive letter to my old hard drive since C: is my new one and D: is my CD-Rom I found in device manager a screen that shows the drive specification but it is dimmed and I don't remember how to specify the end drive letter.
Has the old hard drive been formated yet?
If not format it with out your new drive presnt..
Ok..I am really confused now...I did format the hard drive while it was in the other computer but I used the format option in setup...you know like press f1 at boot up...then there was an option to format the hard drive and that is the option I used. Now nothing recognizes the drive....well my new pc does in device manager but I can't access it at all.
That option to format the drive from your system setup is a low-level format utility. The drive still isn't usable because it still needs to be partitioned with Fdisk and then formatted with the format command provided by your Operating System.