Hi Skipp! Thanks - but the biggest problem I have is trying to get the CD to work in the laptop I am helping the guy with. We're both thinking that *IF* we can get Win98 loaded onto the machine, the CD drive itself will be recognized once the machine boots into Windows. Right now, it's a Win95 laptop with only a working floppy.
I have Win98 running on an older desktop, so making a Win98 boot floppy is not the issue... Risking getting further and further off topic, all we're trying to really do is figure out how to get the CD drive to be recognized in the laptop once Windows boots up. The drive is seen in BIOS, but not once the machine boots... But please, if anyone has further suggestions on how to remedy the problem -- let's take this to direct e-mail and stop the OT thread. On a different topic - did you get my private message regarding the Astron you were helping me with? Mark - N9WYS n9wys <(at)> ameritech <(dot)> net -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Running or Booting Dos Radio Programs in - with Windows 98se Hi Mark, I have not found a Dos - Radio Programming Program that I haven't been able to run in/on my vintage Digital HiNote VP Laptop. And I've tried similar setups many other laptops... The only operational quirk is that a few (mostly Motorola RSS/MSS) programs require you exit Windows 98se to MS Dos. And the really ancient programs would like you to slow the world (computer) down to a crawl using the Moslow program. Otherwise many/most of the original Dos Programs operate in Windows 98se using/within a Dos Window. **** What you probably need right now is... A copy of the original Windows 98 (install) boot disk that tests for and loads a number of on floppy disk available CD Rom Drivers. Rare is/was the case where the mentioned disk failed to boot a usable CD rom driver. The disk boot process delivers you to a prompt of install Windows from a CD or boot to a prompt with or without a CD Rom Driver in place. From that point your machine is now booted to a usable command prompt and depending on your selection with or without a CD Rom Driver. **** How you deal with loading a program from a CD Rom, Hard or floppy disk from the above mentioned command prompt is another whole thread (I don't have time to type in those steps). **** So you need to find/obtain a copy of the mentioned Windows 98se floppy disk (and there are at least two versions). Time to learn about the programs rawread (raw-read) and rawwrite (raw-write) which allow you to capture an restore exact floppy disk images. The original programs of course required you run them on/at a dos command prompt... so that might be a fly in your soup if you didn't have the new raw-write program for Windows (mentioned below). With a copy of a Windows 98se boot floppy disk "image" file you can restore/make your own boot disk and boot to the command prompt as directed above. Raw read and raw write are modestly powerful programs so warnings go out to casual users who don't tend to read directions. A quick search of the net found a windows version... Lucky you. Until I did the search today I had been working with the original dos only version... http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite So in theory... after learning about, finding and installing a raw write type program you can "roll your own' (make) Windows 98se boot disk... you just need the disk file image from someone really nice. You might contact that person via Email and see what you receive back. cheers, skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com [pasted text] What is a disk image : A disk image is a file that contains all the raw data on a disk in the original track and sector format. Using a disk image enables you to send diskettes that are not MS-DOS format via FTP or EMail and then recreate them in their original format and integrity. [end pasted text] > "Mark" <n9...@...> wrote: > Nope - this is an OLD machine. No USB, no SCSI. > What I am really needing to find are the DOS/Win95 device > drivers for the CD drive. It's an NEC Versa 4080h. > > Just so we can keep this "sorta" on topic, the primary > purpose for this laptop is to run old Motorola and other > radio programming software. > Mark - N9WYS ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.9/1900 - Release Date: 1/18/2009 12:11 PM
