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re: Formatted the computer and now can't get it started...
Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 9:25 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keun
(4 messages posted)
When i tried with R:, i got "invalid drive specification"
However, when i tried D:, i got "CDR101: Not ready reading drive D Abort, Retry,
Fail?
I've tried Retry but still got the same message...
Is there anything else i can try?
PS: thanx for your patience and valuable time :)
On Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 11:15 am, jack hall wrote:
>A-C is correct. When booting, it should tell you what drive to use. It could be
"E"
>or if from boot disk.com probably "R". In other words your cd rom's drive letter
>is changed for installation. It will revert back after the installation is complete.
>If your bootdisk has xcopy (it probably does if you see the word "banana" somewhere,
>you can do the install the professional way.
>1. Boot to the A:\> prompt.
>2. Staying at the "A" prompt type.....
>3. xcopy R:\win98\*.* C:\windows\options\cabs\ Press enter. This will copy all the
>98 files to your hard drive, and return you to the A:\> prompt.
>4.At the "A" prompt type.....
>5.C:\ and press enter...
>6. At the C:\ prompt type.....
>7. cd C:\windows\options\cabs .. and press enter
>8. At the C:\windows\options\cabs type ...
>9 setup and press enter. Away you go.
>notes. on item #3 watch your spaces. important.
>As well, sometime before executing step 3 you must put your 98 cd in.
>If that command fails, it may be due to the cd spooling up too slow. Just repeat
>it.
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