Hello all,

I have found many people with the same problem as mine, but there solutions have 
not helped me.  I have an old computer which was messed up by the previous owner, 
so I wanted to clean out the hard drive and reinstall windows.  I formatted the drive 
and now I get this message whenever I boot up the computer.  Note: This is after 
I have tried copying driver files from a Windows95b boot disk and Windows98 boot 
disk to the clean hard drive.

The computer prompts:
Boot from floppy
Boot from fixed

When I select boot from fixed, I get the Windows 95 splash screen for a few seconds 
and then the following message:

CD-ROM Device Driver for IDE (Four Channels Supported)
(C) Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993-1996
Driver Version            : V340
Driver Name              : BANANA
No drivers found, aborting installation
Device driver not found: 'BANANA'
No valid CDROM device drivers selected

Where do I go from here??

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"Where do I go from here??"

Here are some sites offering step-by-step Windows
installation tips:
http://freepctech.com/pc/001/003.shtml
http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php
http://www.netpathway.com/~kramer/reinstall.html
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/clean1.html
http://www.geocities.com/politalk/win95/install.htm

Jerry

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Thank you for your quick response Jerry.

I will try these sites out tomorrow and let you know how I make out!

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Hey Jerry,

All those sites seem fine after the CD-ROM is working properly.  The problem is, 
I cannot get the right driver for the CD-ROM.  I have tried a Windows 95 and 98 boot 
disk and none of the provided drivers have been able to get my CD-ROM recognized 
in DOS.  The drive works, because before the clean install, I was able to access 
it in Windows.  If you have any other ideas about what I could do, please help.

Thanks in advance,
Vito

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I think the boot disks downloaded from BootDisk.com 
have CD Rom drivers. You best bet is to download the WinME boot disk.

I haven't tried them because I've had my own boot disk for may years with CD Rom 
drivers.

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I have tried the Windows 95 and Windows 98 boot disks off of that site, both had 
CD-ROM drivers on them, but neither of them worked.  Will the Windows ME boot disk 
make any difference?







On Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 10:18 am, Keith Stanier wrote:

>I think the boot disks downloaded from BootDisk.com 

>have CD Rom drivers. You best bet is to download the WinME boot disk.

>

>I haven't tried them because I've had my own boot disk for may years with CD Rom 

>drivers. 

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Wow.  I think I'm stuck.  I've never encountered a
machine that the "Windows 95 Version B" bootdisk from
http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
wouldn't boot.  Except on the one occasion when
the CDROM drive itself was bad.

Jerry

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You have not said the manufacturer or model number of your CD-ROM drive, but the "Banana" driver was used on Panasonic and Matsushita drives. Copy and paste the URL below into your the address bar on your browser and when the page comes up look in the upper left hand corner for the link to CD593B.ZIP. The file is only about 100K. This is a DOS driver, and comes with an executable install file and instructions. I checked the site and the download today and they are still good. The file dates are 1995 and 1996. With a blank hard disk you don't have much to lose by giving it a try. Unzip the files to a floppy or to the hard disk and run install.exe http://www.interteklabs.com/www/interteklabs/webpage.nsf/1ae14c735d632653c125659c00619b2c/f6c09efa0fb77ac1c125659c003ab7cf?OpenDocument


On Monday, January 7, 2008 at 12:40 pm, Vito Urbano wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have found many people with the same problem as mine, but there solutions have
>not helped me. I have an old computer which was messed up by the previous owner,
>so I wanted to clean out the hard drive and reinstall windows. I formatted the drive
>and now I get this message whenever I boot up the computer. Note: This is after
>I have tried copying driver files from a Windows95b boot disk and Windows98 boot
>disk to the clean hard drive.
>
>The computer prompts:
>Boot from floppy
>Boot from fixed
>
>When I select boot from fixed, I get the Windows 95 splash screen for a few seconds
>and then the following message:
>
>CD-ROM Device Driver for IDE (Four Channels Supported)
>(C) Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993-1996
>Driver Version : V340
>Driver Name : BANANA
>No drivers found, aborting installation
>Device driver not found: 'BANANA'
>No valid CDROM device drivers selected
>
>Where do I go from here??

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Hi Ancien:

I suspect, in Vito's case, the "Banana" came from
a floppy bootdisk he got from
http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

I know the "Win95 Version B" bootdisk uses the
nomenclature "device name = banana."  The name can
actually be any word -- it just allows the
instructions in the CONFIG.SYS file to find the
matching instructions in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.





On my bootdisk, I changed the name from "BANANA" to
"APPLE", because if I use the bootdisk for a Win2K
installation, the Windows installer won't install
a Win2K file called BANANA.ANI if it sees an
environmental variable already in use called
"banana."

I figure I'm safe with the name "apple".  I can't
imagine Bill Gates would ever put anything into
Windows called "apple".

Jerry

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You may be right about that. As he says, lots of people seem to have his problem. That driver worked for some of them. If it doesn't work for him, he hasn't lost anything. Sorry if I horned in. What do you think about trying CDROM God?


On Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 4:30 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Ancien:
>
>I suspect, in Vito's case, the "Banana" came from
>a floppy bootdisk he got from
>http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
>
>I know the "Win95 Version B" bootdisk uses the
>nomenclature "device name = banana." The name can
>actually be any word -- it just allows the
>instructions in the CONFIG.SYS file to find the
>matching instructions in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
>

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"CD-ROM God."

It's worth a try.  I messed around with it for a while and 
found it confusing to use, and went back to my 
BOOTDISK.COM disk.

Jerry

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Agree. It's made for techs. I've seen it work, but I'm not proficient with it either so can't walk him through it. Let's see what he reports back on the MKE driver.


On Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 6:20 pm, Jerry wrote:
>"CD-ROM God."
>
>It's worth a try. I messed around with it for a while and
>found it confusing to use, and went back to my
>BOOTDISK.COM disk.
>
>Jerry

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>
>Jerry
>
>
>Jerry Windows 95 doesnt usually have a generic device driver for CD roms. What you can do is find a generic driver for one on the internet and install it in Dos first and then access Windows 95 from the D prompt or which ever is the driver letter in DOS> and then type setup or install. Gary


On Monday, January 7, 2008 at 3:06 pm, Jerry wrote:
>"Where do I go from here??"
>
>Here are some sites offering step-by-step Windows
>installation tips:
>http://freepctech.com/pc/001/003.shtml
>http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.php
>http://www.netpathway.com/~kramer/reinstall.html
>http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/clean1.html
>http://www.geocities.com/politalk/win95/install.htm
>
>
>

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Why don't you try changing the boot sequence in the BIOS, then the CD drive should load straight up without trying the floppy first or showing the Win95 splash screens. If it runs from the BIOS, you shouldn't need a driver.

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As I said before, the computer is old and does not allow booting from the CD-ROM. 
 I have tried everything guys and nothing seems to work.  Thank you all for your 
help, but I think this thing is going in the garbage.

Thanks again,
Vito







On Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 9:18 am, Aidan Jenkins wrote:

>Why don't you try changing the boot sequence in the BIOS, then the CD drive should 

>load straight up without trying the floppy first or showing the Win95 splash screens. 

>If it runs from the BIOS, you shouldn't need a driver. 

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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

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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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
>
>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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Well now, I've never heard of a Banana disk! Imagine that!
In the meantime, here are a couple of pages on CD-ROM support.
http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/cdrom.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/cdromd.htm

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