Hard Drive crash no CD-Rom drive!

Bruce M · #1 July 24th, 2004, 03:03 AM

I tried to change my HD for a larger one. Accidently reversed the Hard Drive ribbon cable into the back of HD. I now have tried a boot disc and this message appears. " Device driver not found: "Banana". I can get a dos prompt for A:\ and C:\ I have the manufactures driver for CD-Rom on a floppy disc. Question how can I get this driver onto the computer or read CD-Rom drive to enable reinstall Windows 95?

**Snurfen** · #2 July 24th, 2004, 09:44 AM

Hello Bruce, not sure about the second part of your question, but a few points about your first statement about reversing the cable:

It's extremely unlikely that putting the ribbon cable on your HD the wrong way round would fry it. Check all the pins on the HD and MB to make sure none are bent (usually near the outside edges of each set of pins). Take the ribbon out and check none of the pins have broken of the HD or MB and become stuck in the cable terminators. Make sure nothing got trapped, kinked or pinched when moving components within your pc case.

If any of the above is true, post back and the fault can be progressed.

Best of luck,
MJ

**AnnMarie** · #3 July 25th, 2004, 08:44 AM

Have you tried booting with a Win98 startup disk Bruce? CD Rom support is included. If not, you can download one from here to your PC. Put a formatted floppy disk in in the drive and doubleclick on the file to create the bootdisk (follow the prompts).

Alfons · #4 August 1st, 2004, 01:31 AM

That message is telling you that DOS can't find the device driver which relates to the device named "banana" - there's a boot disk that uses this as a device name for the CD-ROM. Although you can fix your current boot disk, your best bet would be to make a new one by following AnnMarie's advise.