Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: LePaul on October 06, 2002, 02:34:58 PM
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A co-worker's PC died, hard drive failed. For some reason, this model Compaq had the CAB files copied onto the hard drive, but they never had a CD for even a restore. So, they bought a new hard drive and asked me to re-install for them with the Win 98 CD they bought and make it all work for them
I've seen this error before and I can't remember how I worked around it. The system saw the CD-ROM fine and did the entire install from CD (booted from CD, etc) just fine. Now, after everything has been installed, the only thing showing is the A: and the C: I'm not finding any obvious clues....someone here had the same issue just over a year ago and I'll be darned if I recall the fix. I thought it was a RegEdit thing....can anyone enlighten me?
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....nevermind
About 3 reboots later, it "discovered" the hardware
I'd love to claim credit, ingenuity or cleverness. Just being pissed off, cranky, and yanking the power plug solves another Microsoft issue :p
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beware i had this problem with a abit board turned out to be sub spec memory ( not cas 2)
will drive you nuts if the memory is "almost good enough"
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I once had the same problem, luckily I had not replaced Harddrives and so all my cab files were still on it. Same solution fixed it. I tried every trick in the book, I even rewrote some of the VxD's and DLL's on my comp and it didn't take until the 3rd reboot and the damn CD-ROM showed up. It is a Win98 thing I'm sure, don't know what or why, but it is.