UltraO Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Hello , I am new here on these forums but I have a problem, a big problem that is very ANNOYING The thing is that, it won't show up the cd drive as like E:/ or F:/ w/e, but it can read from it, but I can't acces the files. This is really annoying as I need drivers for for the network, graphics etc. The computer was originally installed with XP, but I like to mod so I went to Windows 98 which I wanted to make better so, it doesn't have support for disks . And that's like the only way I know how to enable the CD Drive for the computer(by creating a start disk) I believe that the diskett driver(the driver A:/ is shown as a diskett driver thingy inputer). HOW AM I ABLE TO FIX THIS PAIN IN THE a** PROBLEM?? How can I fix this? I believe that this problem might be cause by that A: is using diskett reading drivers or something similar, which f-word |opposite to down| the CD reading capabilites.KTHX in advance Edited April 12, 2009 by UltraO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 (edited) You could temporarily add the appropriate lines into the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS until you get the Chipset Drivers installed... this may be the reason not showing up. Your first mistake was installing Win98 before "collecting" the appropriate drivers. Heck, you started ranting and didn't even tell what kind of PC, what Chipset, wht type of CD-Rom. Hard to help with so much info lacking....CONFIG.SYS -device=C:\WINDWS\COMMAND\EBD\oakcdrom.sys /D:MYCD001lastdrive=zAUTOEXEC.BAT -LH C:WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MYCD001 /L:ZWith above, CD-ROM should show up as Z-drive. Edited April 11, 2009 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraO Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Sorry I didn't put more info, I thought it was unnecessary Anyways it didn't work because I don't have a ebd folder in command, and I searched for "ebd" and found "ebd.cab" in the My Documents folder, but it didn't contain the oakcdrom.sys.Is it possible to like expand it from the cd from ms-dos prompt?Hardware+PC info;HP Compaq nx8220CD Drive:Matsh ita UJ762 or something VERY similar.(it got censorated for being named shi ta)Chipset: Intel 915 GM(not sure about those last letters, but I remember that it had a G in the end so)And you said that I didn't collect the appropiate drivers, I did but how the hell am I supposed to install them when there's no way to communicate with that PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraO Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Ok, all I need to make the cd-drive to work is the oakcdrom.sys, but I don't know how to get it . It must be on the Windows 98 CD as otherwise it wouldn't be able to install, right? So I just wonder WHERE on the cd is the oakcdrom.sys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroOS Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 OAKCDROM.SYS is in Windows 98SE BASE5.CAB.Use your extractor of choice or use the command line extract tool:extract [path\]base5.cab oakcdrom.sys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraO Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 YESS! Thank you! Now I got a fully functional cd-drive so I can begin using this s***ware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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