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Can't find CDrom after Fdisk?

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by jrinehart

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When reloading a win95 machine I entered fdisk without selecting cdrom support. When I reboot to A: drive I should be able to change directories to d: or E: drive for cdrom to continue reloading windows. What happen to the cdrom drive? What can I doto get CDrom support so i can continue to reload? I had a cdrom drive before I did the reload. Thanks for any help.

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by thechas

CD-ROM support is not part of fdisk.
It is part of the boot program.

You should just be able to boot from the floppy again, and choose to enable CD-ROM support.

If not, download a new boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
Make sure to get the correct boot disk for your version of W95.

If you cannot find your CD drive at all, check the BIOS settings.

Make sure that the channel that the drive is connected to is set to either auto-detect, or cd-rom.

by jmatt

If the new boot disk dos'nt work , you probably have an older cd rom & need a special disk .
Post again if needed .

by jrinehart

Yes, this is an older PC (Acer) and I bet I need a special CD disk? Thanks for the help.

by unclegarbage

One thing that would help you get an answer is to know what you did in fdisk. If you just created a full DOS partition you should be just reboot from CD not Hard-Drive, if this does not help leave a note of what you did while in fdisk. The real purpose of fdisk is to create a multi-disk Hard-Drive. You will not be able to get a D: or E: DIR because you do not have and OS on your disk after running fdisk. One other thing is you do not have to boot form a floppy you can still boot from a CD even in a A: DIR. it will locate the file you need for example fdisk.

by bohicam1

Windows95 is not a bootable cd. The win95 emergency repair disk you create on install does not have cdrom support. You need to get a bootable floppy...win98 boot disk works just fine. You can choose to start the system with cdrom support. From there, if you have already formatted your c: drive,
The D:\ drive should be where the boot floppys utilities are located so that means the E:\ drive is your cdrom drive. Insert the cdrom, go to the win95 directory and type setup.exe
This will start yourwindows95 install.
Good luck!

Mike

by shuja52

It is true that WIn 95 startup disk doesn't have file to support CDROM. It is best to download win98 startup bootdisk from bootdisk.com
or u can fine mscdex.exe and oakcdrom.sys files u can enable the CDROm support. Post if u have these files available

and lastly see ur config.sys file has a entry
lastdrive=z

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