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I am trying to rebuild a Laptop and install WIN95 on it. The machine won't recognize the cd drive so I can't install from a CD. Is there a way to take a WIN95 CD and convert it to floppies?
 
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agreed...

another option would be to get a 25 pin multipurpose conductor cable (male to male), connect the laptop to a desktop, and run INTERLNK.EXE on the laptop boot floppy, and INTERSRV.EXE on the desktop... then copy the win95 directory over to the laptop hard drive and install...
 
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Good idea...Thank you
 
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You can do either of two things. You need 95 boot disk that will install the cd drivers. I think some of the posters on this forum know where u can download one

OR

If you know someone with win98, u can use the system disk from that. It will ask you if you want install the cd drivers. And yes it works even if you're installing win95.
 
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I already tried that, but it still won't recognize the drive. So I tried plugging an external CD drive into the PCMCIA slot, but the machine is not recognizing the slot controller. I downloaded the drivers for it, but they arent working.
 
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nononono...it recognizes the floppy drive, just not the CD drive, or the PCMCIA controller.
 
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OK, you can boot to the floppy.
Find PCMCIA dirvers for DOS, and install those.
What model#, brand, etc., is it?
Once you can "find" the CD-ROM, it's easy...more input needed.
If you can't "recognize the drive", just what do you mean?
Have you tried fdisk, format...? Cheers,
Jim
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Ok, here goes. Initially there was no instance of fdisk on the machine, so I did a format c: (thinking I would do like you said and boot off a floppy and install everything from there.

Then, I found the CDROM drivers, installed them, but the machine does not see the CDROM as a drive, so I cannot install from it. I thought I could hook up an external through the PCMCIA slot. So I installed the drivers for the external, and the machine errored on boot sayiing it was trying to load the CDROM drive, but could not find the PCMCIA controller.

I went online and tried several pieces of software, alas, to no avail.

Hitachi (the laptop manufacturer) stopped supporting my particular machine about a year ago, so there is no info on their site.

I am stuck.
 
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Back to original question. There are W95 floppy sets available. Have you looked into getting one of those? The .cab files are on one floppy each in DMF which requires the ability to format , read and write at 1.7 mb.(utility set including fdformat is available on the web) The setup floppy is 1.44 and has the stuff neccessary to read DMF. Writes user data on disk 2.
Alternative is to use the 1.7 as the transfer medium for the cab files and transfer into an installation directory. would have to use the fdread as an overlay onto dos to allow the 1.7 read and write and the fdformat to prepare the floppies.
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I would recommend using a 98 boot disk which should allow you to boot with or with out cd rom drivers.

that would be the easiest IMO.

 
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I tried that too. Regarding the posting just above, I have no idea what you mean.
 
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get a null modem cable (serial), or - even faster - a 25 pin multipurpose conductor cable (for parallel)... get INTERLNK.EXE and INTERSVR.EXE from DOS 6.22 (or, you could download this boot floppy - (just make sure to copy the intersvr.exe to the desktop...))

copy the win95 folder to the hard drive (preferrably root) from the CD... run INTERSVR.EXE on the desktop... it will prompt you to restart in DOS mode... put INTERLNK.EXE in the config.sys of the boot floppy... when it boots, it will map drive letters to the desktop... you can then copy the win95 folder over to the laptop that way...

serial is REALLY slow, but it works... parallel is faster, but i wouldn't hold my breath either... >(::O>

Shane
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DOA, SOL, AWOL, PEBKAC, id10t, FUBAR
 
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So, this Hitachi has a built in CD-ROM, but you can't find drivers for it, or the drivers you have don't work.
There's got to be something on the web here.
What model of Laptop is it? Any idea on the part numbers/model(s) of CD-ROM's?
Have you searched around ? Cheers,
Jim
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