nonfunction cd-rom so how can i install windows

[DrAsh]

Hello,

I have a dll laptop with a builtin cd-rom. I also have a external cd burner. My jsut formated my harddrive and rebooted using a win98 startup disk with cd-rom support. I assumed that it would recognize my cd burner so I could install windows from there, but it won't. It keeps using the broken cd-rom built into my laptop. How can I get around this. Ultimately, I jsut want to get windows installed onto my laptop.


drash DrAsh

 

[edfair]

Usually just a matter of loading the right set of drivers. What drivers came with your burner? 98 boot disk has 4 or 5 but external may be beyond built in ability.
You may end up going to an earlier DOS and using a file transfer in from another machine. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[guidos]

The external CD ROM is beyond the built-in ability of the PC...it has its own set of drivers, which MUST be loaded in order for it to run (being as it's using the parallel port, I guess). You'll have to copy the DOS driver from the orignal CD or diskettes to your boot floppy in order for it to work...

Hope this helps...

 

[aperfectcircle]

Did your boot disk create a RAM drive? If so that would make a drive that would normally appear as D: appear as E:

I apologize if that was a dumb question, but in your post you stated "I assumed that it would recognize my cd burner so I could install windows from there, but it won't. It keeps using the broken cd-rom built into my laptop."

If it created a RAM drive and you typed in E: at a DOS prompt, it would actually show the drive that would normally be D:


Just a thought...