Installing Windows 98 on Toshiba laptop! Problems...

[nexius]

Hey

I just got this used Toshiba 490CDT laptop and I'm trying to format it so I can reinstall with a fresh copy of Windows 98, but it won't boot up from the CD or the detachable floppy drive... I tried changing boot priority to CD-ROM but still nothing.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Any help appreciated!

 

[TwoEdge]

Didn't it come with a CD that you just pop-in, run and it does everything for you?

 

[TwoEdge]

You can also try a DOS boot disk with CD-ROM drivers and go from there.

 

[micker377]

Can you create an &quot;Emergency Boot Disk&quot; on another Win 98 computer? Also did you set &quot;DOS USB&quot; to <on> in the BIOS setup? You also have to set &quot;Boot Order&quot; to &quot;A, CD, Hard Drive&quot; in BIOS.

 

[nexius]

It didn't come with a cd because it was used. I'm trying to create an &quot;Emergency boot disk&quot; right now -- Thanks for the help =)

 

[nexius]

hmmm OK so I tried that and everything went OK until I tried booting up with the disk, at which point it just froze with a blinking cursor.

I'll keep messing around with it

 

[nexius]

It sounds like it's reading the disk but nothing happens...

 

[micker377]

How did you create the &quot;boot disk&quot;?

 

[haygood2]

http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[micker377]

I meant did you &quot;create&quot; this disk on the problem machine or another system entirely? Can you do a &quot;Dir A:&quot; on the problem machine? What I'm leading up to: is the Floppy drive functioning properly. (You need the boot disk to get the CD drivers to use the CD.)

 

[nexius]

I did actually create the disk on the problem machine... Just because I don't have any other systems that use windows 98 (they all use XP).

I just followed this tutorial :

http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=93

I have this old fdisk that gets me to DOS when I boot up, so I can format, but like you said I need the cd drivers. It's odd though... For some reason I don't have access to the cd-rom in DOS and only the A:\ drive and the C:\ drive.

Let me know if you can think of any bright ideas. Thanks again for the help

 

[edfair]

Your bootdisk has CD support for about 99.5% of machines. Evidently the Toshiba model you are dealing with is one that is not supported.
Only option is to try to get the support files from a driver location and insert them into the boot disk.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[micker377]

Does the external A: drive hook up through the USB port? If so, can you borrow another (newer) USB floppy that the emergency boot disk WOULD recognize?

 

[lesgray]

Checking Toshiba's site for this laptop, I came across a bios update that among other things said:

&quot;A modification has been made to allow the system to boot from a TEAC CD-ROM drive&quot;

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/2490tv75.exe

Mybe that will help - longshot...




Les Gray

http://www.creartec.com

 

[nexius]

It works !

I thought it might be a problem with the disk so I made another boot disk and it worked...

Thanks again