Windows Reinstall

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muttly61

Discussion Starter · Mar 21, 2004

Hi
Could someone help me try to install windows on an older Compaq Armada 4100 laptop which has a blank harddrive. I have a Win 95 CDrom installation disc & the laptop has a PCMCIA connected external CDRom drive. I have the driver for the CdRom on floppy disk but I dont know how to install this on to the blank hard drive on the laptop. I have tried using an old Win 95 boot disc to get me into dos which seems to work & has allowed me to format the hard drive however I dont know how to get the Cdrom driver to install so i can then load windows 95 o/s via the installation CD. Please help.

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dr20

· #2 · Mar 21, 2004

Hi,

I take it with this laptop you don't have access to the CD-Rom and the floppy drive at the same time? In other words you have to swap to use one or the other?

Either way you will need to edit the Config.sys and Autoexe files in order to be able to read your CD-Rom. Are you familiar with doing that?

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dr20

· #4 · Mar 21, 2004

Bob,

After modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files I was going to have him copy them over to his HD along with system files and the CD-Rom driver so he could boot from there after the drive swap.

But if he can create a boot disk that's better yet, only does that site you provided carry the special CD-Rom driver he'll need for his laptop? Even though they claim generic sometimes they don't work if the laptop has a removable PCMCIA CD-Rom.

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dr20

· #6 · Mar 21, 2004

Creating a boot disk with the proper CD-Rom driver would be the way to go in those cases where you have to swap drives, then you don't have to bother copying things over all the time. I don't understand why some of the manufacturers won't provide these tools for download to make things easier for customers.

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