jonno

Hi Peeps,
Just put my new system together and i cant seem to load the drivers from the floppy, keeps wanting to load from cd???
Ive got windows95, 98se & me!! just dont wana know, been into cmos to see if its enabled..... no probs.
Any of you Pc gurus can help.......... please .

Thanks in advance
Jonno.

father_jack

If you're getting to the point where you can specify drivers and tell it where to look, it's looking for a .inf file - probably in a sub-directory somewhere on the floppy. Search for *.inf on the floppy and pick the one appropriate for your operating system.
e.g. you might find thingy_98.inf or thingy_me.inf - get the idea?
What is the hardware you're adding anyway?

jonno

Hi Father Jack,
Ive got the following
1600 Athlon,
40 gig hdd,
256 ram
Nvida graph card
Sb live

Sorry but i dont quite understand (new to all this) your lingo........

Ive Put this little lot together and just powered it up, put in the floppy and get this .........

disc boot failure, insert system disc and press enter.....
boot from atapi cd- rom : failure insert system disc and press enter

Put the atapi cd-rom and it says.....
1.boot from atapi cd-rom: failure
disc boot failure insert system disc and press enter

Not that iam helping as i aint got a clue (still scrathing my Head LOL.

Thanks Jonno.

IanW

Ok you need to install the operating system onto the PC, If you have Windows 98 SE or Windows ME the discs should be self booting and guide you through the installation.

If you have another OS then you will need a boot disk, then FDISK/Format the drive and install from CD-Rom then.

jonno

Thanks Ian,
As i say ive got win95 and floppy
win98se and floppy
win millenium and startup disc

will give it another go.

Thanks Jonno.

Hanslow

Check your boot options in the bios.

Make sure that under the boot devices, floppy is checked first, then hard drive, then CD-ROM.

It's looking for the OS on the hard disk (as mentioned). Sounds like it is at least checking the CD-ROM for a boot device, so as long as you have your bootable OS disk in the CD drive, it should check and see you have no OS installed and start installing it.

Sorry if this is what the previous posts stated (I may have read them wrong )

father_jack

Ah - so it doesn't have an OS yet.......

The 98 CD is bootable - but if it's a "backup copy" it won't be.