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re: Reinstalling Windows 95 - No CDROM Found...
Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(161 messages posted)
Don't laugh, as you are exactly right. The well known 95 Banana disk has the lousiest
CDROM drivers ever and the wrong one is usually the first in line always. If the
OP were to edit the config.sys file on that disk he would see right away an entire
list of drivers just waiting to be awakened one by one, and tried in sequence if
you will, by un-remming their particular line until a working driver is "found" by
sheer trial and error grunt work on the config.sys file.
That's how it always used to be done too, until MS cooked up the oakcdrom.sys
driver for the win98 boot disk that works pretty darn good for most of the older
CDROM drives. The root problem here is that there really IS no good boot disk for
95 in existance and the newbie is forced to make his own every time out. IIRC, even
the Banana disk doesn't load up himem.sys which is required by setup.exe to
even install 95 to start with - now that's just stupid. It's all stupid, stupid
and stupider.
Just exactly where do you send a noob for learning the finer points of CDROM drive
support? The absolute finest points possible it turns out.
On Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:00 pm, Jacob6601 wrote:
>In config.sys add the line:
>DEVICE =C:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD0001
>and in autoexec.bat add the line:
>c:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001 /L:D
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>You may need to find OAKCDROM.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE and put them in C:\
>And look for a similar line (In config.sys) containing BANANA. Hehe, sorry, but
that
>is pretty funny.
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