Oh-oh...no CD drivers for fresh install

[Geo]

I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).

I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and
autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin
<blush>. what now? Thanks!


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[Jeff Richards]

You don't need anything on the C drive to install Windows.

Create a startup floppy with CD drivers already installed by downloading a
utility from www.bootdisk.com. If the supplied drivers aren't right for
your machine (which is possible for a laptop) then you only have to replace
one of the existing drivers with you special drivers.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
<Geo> wrote in message ...
>I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).
>
> I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and
> autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin
> <blush>. what now? Thanks!

[Hugh Candlin]

<Geo> wrote in message ...
> I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).
>
> I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and
> autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin
> <blush>. what now? Thanks!

Try google with

Toshiba 430CDS windows setup

as a search term?

[Ben Myers]

Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 95b
boot disk. This uses DOS 7.0, which is sufficient for installing =
Windows 98.
Use the disk to start the laptop, type "copy /y a:\*.* c:\", then =
"sys c:".
Then remove the boot disk, insert your Windows 98 CD and restart the =
laptop.
The CD drive should be assigned drive letter "R:".

Ben

<Geo> wrote in message =
...
> I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).
>=20
> I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and
> autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin
> <blush>. what now? Thanks!
>=20
>=20
> x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com
> x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups
> x-- Access to over 1 Terabyte per Day - $8.95/Month
> x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD
>

[ssb]

This scenario is similar to the problem I'm having, but with a desktop. The
generic drivers in startup disk won't work for CDROM running from sound card.

From this last post, I'm not seeing where new drivers are installed. Post
before said to replace existing drivers with specific drivers. How do I do
that?

"Ben Myers" wrote:

> Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and create a Windows 95b
> boot disk. This uses DOS 7.0, which is sufficient for installing Windows 98.
> Use the disk to start the laptop, type "copy /y a:\*.* c:\", then "sys c:".
> Then remove the boot disk, insert your Windows 98 CD and restart the laptop.
> The CD drive should be assigned drive letter "R:".
>
> Ben
>
> <Geo> wrote in message ...
> > I am installing Win98 on an older Toshiba 430CDS laptop (I dunno why).
> >
> > I downloaded the drivers, but can't install it. I need config.sys and
> > autoexec.bat on C; drive, but I reformatted the whole damn thin
> > <blush>. what now? Thanks!
> >
> >
> > x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com
> > x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups
> > x-- Access to over 1 Terabyte per Day - $8.95/Month
> > x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD
> >
>

[Jeff Richards]

The DOS drivers for your CD-ROM consists (usually) of a SYS file that is
copied to the disk then referenced from a line in CONFIG.SYS. The
installation instructions provide the name of the driver file and the
command for CONFIG.SYS. There will also be a command for MSCDEX, but you
can ignore that because it's already included in the boot disk. To add the
line to CONFIG.SYS just replace one of the existing device driver lines -
the structure of the file is clear when you look at it. You need to use the
device name (eg, MSCD0000) that is used in the existing CONFIG.SYS, not the
one used for the example line in your CD-ROM installation instructions..
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"ssb" > wrote in message
...
> This scenario is similar to the problem I'm having, but with a desktop.
> The
> generic drivers in startup disk won't work for CDROM running from sound
> card.
>
> From this last post, I'm not seeing where new drivers are installed. Post
> before said to replace existing drivers with specific drivers. How do I
> do
> that?