I've been given an old Toshiba 320cds laptop that has had it's c drive formatted. I've booted using a windows 95 boot disk (floppy) and inserted the windows 95 CD Rom. This drive is designated R. So with R: selected I type 'setup' and get the response 'Pack File Is Corrupt'. Does anyone know what I should do next? (I should say at this point that I am only semi computer literate and struggle with dos commands)

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Hi,
If you are at an R:\ prompt from your boot diskette when you try to run the CD, my 
best guess is a bad CD.  You might try cleaning the CD surface.  Noodle around for 
CD surface cleaning methods.  Don

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Hi freekypete.

That seems strange that your CD Rom drive is designated R. This normally means that 
your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat are telling it to use R: It would recommend downloading 
a from BootDisk.

I have 2 CD Roms and my bootdisk recognises both as D: and E:

If your CD Rom has a dirty laser then you could use a lens cleaner.

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Hi Keith:

The Win95-version-B bootdisk from BOOKDISK.COM has the "R" designation built in to 
its AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  It also names the CDROM as "banana."  

Any time I see "R" or "banana", I know where the person got his bootdisk from.

Jerry

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Hi Jerry.

Well I have two Cd Roms and my boot disk Config.sys uses

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=A:\Display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=044,437,A:\Country.sys
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=A:\Oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001

you need Oakcdrom.sys on the boot disk. You can change the drive letter as above 
/D try D instead of R. An the same in the Autoexec.bat.

and the Autoexec.bat uses

A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

and it finds D: and E: drives when I boot up.

People actually say to download the Windows ME boot disk, its supposed to be better.

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Hi Keith:

It's the "L" switch which determines which drive
your CDROM will appear as.  The line in the
Win95-version-B bootdisk is:
MSCDEX.EXE  /D:banana /L:R

The "D" switch identifies the driver you want
MSCDEX to use.  The name can be anything, as long
as it matches a name in the CONFIG.SYS.  For
example, on the standard BOOTDISK.COM bootdisk,
this line appears in the CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana

In the absence of a designated "L" switch, Windows
will assign drive letters in order.  If you have
two hard drives, they'll get C: and D:, and your
CDROM will probably get E: (if nothing else loads
first, and if nothing else has specified it wants
to be "E:".  For example, DOS drivers for parallel
port ZIP drives can be assigned specific drive
letters.

The nice thing about assigning a specific drive
letter is your CDROM always appears as "R:" or
whatever.  It's annoying if you use a variety of
hardware, and find that sometimes your CDROM is
"E:" and sometimes it's "F:".

Win2K fixed this by giving you the opportunity in
its "Computer Management" control panel to assign
favorite drive letters to everything.

In Win95, we're limited in our drive assignments
to those device drivers which allow to to specify
a drive label in the AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Jerry


Jerry

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