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by pkmarg

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I am fixing an old Pentium II for grandson. I have managed to get the PC to boot and using mscdex.exe the PC recognised D:. But when I put a Windows 95 CD into the drive to load the program, I am told that the drive is not ready.
Can you hopefullytell me what to try so that I can get this machine up and running?
Thank you for a great site.

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by thechas

You need to boot the PC from a W95 startup disk.

Straight DOS will not run the W95 setup program.

You do not want to start out with mscdex loaded from autoexec.bat or config.sys on the hard drive.
You only need mscdex IF you need to run DOS mode programs on the PC.

If you do not have a W95 startup floppy, you can download an image from the links at www.bootdisk.com

Make sure that the W95 CD is clean, and that the CD drive functions.
You should be able to check the drive by inserting an audio CD and listening to it over the headphones.

Double check the IDE cable, jumper, and BIOS settings for the CD drive.

Chas

by kurrakiran

While system booting try to go to BIOS ( by pressing "Del" / "enter" / as sugested by the system depending up on the BIOS MFRS.)

Change the "First Boot Device" to CD Drive

Restart the System with the Win-95 CD in CD Drive.

If Every thing isRight It will Work.

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