Command Prompt

[HamR]

Trying to load Win95. Having trouble getting
CdRom drive to load.
I F8 when Windows starts loading and try to
use the COMMAND PROMPT ONLY after I hit
Enter, nothing happens.

I had win3.1 and then I did a fdisk prior to trying to load win95.

Any Help?

Thanks

[Idnew]

Welcome Ham

Are you using a boot disk with cd rom support? If you need one I can e-mail you one.

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[HamR]

Thanks Idnew but I have the driver that I copied before fdisk. Plus I downloaded another driver file from bootdisk.com

I did make some changes in the CONFIG.SYS
file and the AUTOEXEC.EXE file to supposedly
make the driver compatible with the Win95
boot disk.

I would not think making those changes
would prevent me from using the COMMAND PROMPT in DOS.

But I haven't a clue now

Again Thanks anyway

HamR

[smurfy]

Hi HamR.

I am a little confused.
You had W3.1 installed
You "Fdisk"ed, I assume you formatted the drive - this would wipe Win3.1 and your old Autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
Your drive should be clean ready for install of windows95, you should not be getting the "starting windows 95" and hitting F8 gives you the boot menu unless you have actually installed W95???

So, please clarify, is Win95 successfully installed, just not recognising CD-rom in Windows?
If so, post the contents of your new autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Please also advise what brand CD-Rom you have.
Please also confirm there are no device warnings in Device manager (Start/Settings/Control panel/System>Device manager tab).
Is the CD-rom slaved to the hard drive (on the same IDE cable) or is it using the second IDE connection on your motherboard or is it connected via the soundcard?

Sorry for the 20 questions but there are many possibilities here.

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[Junky]

More questions:

How old is the motherboard?

Have you recently changed any hardware in the computer? Or have you added or removed any hardware?

*edit* Just re-read your posts.

Why are you using a boot disk? Can't the computer and windows start by themselves?

Is there an autoexec.bat and a config.sys on the hard drive? If so, copy them to a floppy disk for safe keeping. Then remove them off the hard drive to see what happens.

I quess the bottom line here is please be much more discriptive as to what is happening and what you are trying to do.

Thanks http://www.cybertechhelp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Junky (edited 22 November 2000).]