Reinstall Win. 98

[nshenry03]

I'm trying to install win98 on a clean disk. I've done Fdisk and a format. now I want to run setup but I keep getting the error: Device driver nto found: 'MSCD001'; No valid CDROM device drivers selected. I've seen this error a couple of times on other forums and it says to download the drivers from the drives manufacturers website and I've done so, next it says to edit the CONFIG.sys and AUTOEXEC.bat files. This is where I'm confused. I've got a boot disk and it's got both of these file, so they're the ones I've been editing, I've also put all of the device drivers on the root of the boot disk.

Drive is: SONY PCGA-CD5
Files from driver download are: va16.cat, VA16.inf, VA16.mpd, VA16CD.sys, VA16CLI.sys, va16w2.cat, VA16W2.inf, VA16W2.sys, VA16X.inf, and VA16365.sys

Any Help would be appreciated

 

[satrow]

Hmm, a lightweight Sony with proprietry parts - not the best combo.

Can't you set the BIOS to boot directly from the CD?

 

[edfair]

You have hardware device drivers that are called from config.sys. The line in config.sys would normally be "device=a:\driver.sys /d:driver". There would be a splash screen noting that the CD was found and the port.
You have software drivers that are called from Autoexec.bat.
The line would be "mscdex /d:driver".

The easiest way would be to download a 98SE boot disk from

http://www.bootdisk.com

and use it. The stock one covers about 98% of existing hardware. Then if you needed a special you could patch it in using the existing as a guide.

The MSCD001 is a dummy name used for convienence. Your CD drivers may have used another name and that is the reason for the error.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[nshenry03]

First I get a screen note that said stuff about the sony drivers (I think this is when it's looking on the A: drive)

Next it gives me something about OakCD driver and driver not found canceling install (I think this is when it's looking on the D: drive)

This is what's entered into the two files:

config.sys
device=a:\VA16CD.sys /d:mscd001

autoexec.bat
LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%

and I've tried VA16CD.sys, VA16CLI.sys, VA16W2.sys, and VA16365.sys in the config.sys file

should I try something different for the mscd001? If so, what? (note that I am able to go to the D: drive and it does show file when I do a dir: attrib, chkdsk, command, debug, ...)

 

[edfair]

All of this is happening from the A: except it is looking on the ramdisk for the MSCD.exe during the autoexec.bat. You can put mscd.exe on the floppy and change the path to call it to simplify things.

The generic 98SE boot disk tries to load 7 different versions of drivers in config.sys.
What kind of error report are you getting when the VA drive loads?

How about renaming the autoexec.bat to something like ae.bat and report back what config.sys is really doing and the errors associated with it?

If you don't see any reference to the driver finding the drive with the first driver, try the 2nd, etc.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[nshenry03]

changed line in autoexec.bat to: LH a:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%

I removed device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 from config.sys b/c it says driver not found, installation aborted, so I wanted to make sure that was not the problem

Other errors given are:

device=a:\VA16CD.sys /D:mscd001:
Not Found Client Driver

device=a:\VA16CLI.sys /D:mscd001:
Device = VA16CLt.sys /port =xxx
[port = xxx]: xxx= 180, 190, 1A0

device=a:\VA16W2.sys /D:mscd001:
Stalls, computer does not report anything

device=a:\VA16365.sys /D:mscd001:
Device = VA16CLt.sys /port =xxx /MEM =xxxx
[port = xxx]: xxx= 180, 190, 1A0
xxxx= Windows Memory Address


Error at the end after it goes through the rest of the drivers:
Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'
No valid CDROM device drivers selected


After Renaming to ae.bat
It runs the same as it did before, except at the end it doesn't give me an error, it just dumps me to the command prompt
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Is this another possible solution?
I've got a laptop Hard drive to desktop hard drive converter, would it be possible to slave it, partition and format, dump the win98 install onto secondary partition and install from that, and then worry about getting the cd drivers up and running?

 

[edfair]

Sounds good to me. I normally do that at the beginning.

This is a FWIW comment: I have a CD with several versions install files burned. The SE is a duplicate of the root and win98 subdirectory in a folder w98sein which I put on a FAT16 partition at the front and install it to a logical drive D: on a FAT32 extended partition. I load a dos, 6.22 or 7, on C: and put my install stuff there. Gives me a dual boot capability and if I used 7 the capability of getting to the whole drive from DOS. This eliminates the possibility of SE corrupting something to the extent that I couldn't get to dos.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.