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dell latitude cpi
hi there i have a old dell latitude cpi that is running on windows 98 it has a floppy disk drive internaly and i have a cd drive when i put the cd drive in it is not found by windows. in the bios it says modular bay cd rom so i take it can see the cd drive as i would like to upgrade to xp so when i put my xp disk in nothing at all happens. i went to the boot options in the bios and i could not change them at all as it had said boot device was diskette drive and hard drive and nothing else so i cant edit that to change to cd rom. i have flashed and updated the bios to the latest version does anyone have any ideas on how to get my cd rom drive to work???? please help if you can
thanks
alex
thanks
alex
ebaykid,
The drivers for the CD-ROM are part of the operating system since Windows 95, so there are none to download. Try creating a boot disc from here
Too have you run this Microsoft KB article to see if you can update to XP?
How to determine if hardware or software is compatible with Windows XP
This may help too.
How to prepare to upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition to Windows XP
Good luck,
PennyG
- cant find the rite boot disk so is it not possible for me to get any cd rom drivers for my dell latitude c series cd drive for windows 98 so i can load xp onto it???please let me know or if you have any other ideas on a way to load xp onto my laptopthanksalex
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Posted July 11th, 2006 16:00
Look under Removable Media Storage Devices here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PII_CPI&os=W98&osl=EN#Alex,
I`m sorry but the link provided above is useless, anything found there will be firmware updates, not drivers. Firmware and drivers are totally different.
Look at the following Microsoft KB article
How to Use Real-Mode CD-ROM Drivers from Windows 98 Startup Disk
Good luck,
PennyG
tried both still will not work is there any way of reseting the bios so then i can change the boot settings so my laptop can boot from the cd rom drive to load xp onto it as in windows (running 98 se) still cannot find my cd rom drive when placed in the drive bay only finds floppy drive
please help if you can
alex
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Posted July 16th, 2006 19:00
Hi,
It may be worth downloading the Diags, they make a set of 5 floppies, and using the floppy on the printer port test the CD drive. If it works, then you should be able to get things going. XP may be a little ambitious on a CPi, I would go for 2000. It will still install the same way though.
Regards Chris
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Posted July 17th, 2006 00:00
Hi,
Click on the Tech support tab above. You can find the Diags with the driver download section.
Regards Chris
Edit. If Windows is corrupt, it may not see the CD drive. That is why you need to test it outside of the OS. If it is corrupt, you can use the floppy plugged into the printer port to load CD drivers, then start the load from the CD.
Message Edited by AussieChris on 07-17-200612:19 PM
- yes woooo that has worked windows has found the cd drive now the only problem is when i boot the pc up it does not boot from the cd drive i tried editing the bios but that is not letting me use cd rom as a boot device is there anyway i can boot from the cd drive when i load the computer up ?
thanks
alex
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Posted July 10th, 2006 15:00