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nodice1996
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03 Aug 2008, 8:25 am

I just bought a computer at a yard sale, It works fine, but the cd drive wont work, windows will not recognize it, but BIOS and CMOS will. It worked until I used the hard drive to access the windows installation from another computer, which gave me so many errors I gave up, so how do I fix this?

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03 Aug 2008, 8:53 am

Maybe you need a DOS driver for the CD drive. I'd recommend looking on the FreeDOS (www.freedos.org) page for one.

It's been a few years since I no longer use Win95 :oops:

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03 Aug 2008, 10:49 am

I have seen weird hardware problems when the hard disk wasn't connected properly. You should try to connect it the same way, using the same cable, as it was when it worked. Make sure the plugs are inserted all the way in the sockets. Also, if you changed any jumpers on the disk, change them back.

If your computer uses those older, 40-wire of 80-wire, extremely wide or extremely thick cables (PATA), then you have another bunch of potential issues.

Each PATA cable has one plug for the computer and two (or sometimes one single) plug for hard disks or CD drives. On each cable, either

set both devices (or the only device) to Cable Select.
or
set one to Master and the other to Slave.

But just try to leave everything as it was from the beginning when it worked fine, as Windows might have other, unknown, requirements as well.

Also, what did you do with the hard disk on the other computer? Did you change anything? Did you access it under GNU/Linux (Linux) or Windows? Or something else?

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03 Aug 2008, 10:52 am

LostInEmulation wrote:

Maybe you need a DOS driver for the CD drive. I'd recommend looking on the FreeDOS (www.freedos.org) page for one.

It's been a few years since I no longer use Win95 :oops:

So your old avatar is gone. I miss Tucan [sp?]! :wink:

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03 Aug 2008, 10:54 am

LostInEmulation wrote:

It's been a few years since I no longer use Win95 :oops:

grammatical error

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03 Aug 2008, 11:04 am

saintetienne wrote:

LostInEmulation wrote:

It's been a few years since I no longer use Win95 :oops:

grammatical error

Where?

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03 Aug 2008, 11:08 am

sorry, it probably isn't but I would have said 'It's been a few years since I used Win95 :oops: ' or 'stopped using'

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03 Aug 2008, 11:11 am

saintetienne wrote:

sorry, it probably isn't but I would have said 'It's been a few years since I used Win95 :oops:

' or 'stopped using'

What i see is "It's been a few years [since i used win95] since [because] i no longer use win95". Which makes no sense anyway when i think about it.

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03 Aug 2008, 11:14 am

hey! you're not lostinemulation!
i'm rubbish with grammar

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03 Aug 2008, 11:19 am

saintetienne wrote:

hey! you're not lostinemulation!

That is true. I didn't try to impersonate LostInEmulation, i just asked a curious question.

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03 Aug 2008, 12:51 pm

You might need to replace the drive. Same thing happened when i bought an old Win95 Compaq Presario from a yard sale.

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03 Aug 2008, 1:54 pm

grammar nazis... Don't let it effect you man!

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03 Aug 2008, 2:06 pm

computerlove wrote:

grammar nazis... Don't let it effect you man!

Don't you mean to say:

Quote:

Grammar Nazis... don't let it affect you, individual!

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03 Aug 2008, 2:10 pm

lau wrote:

computerlove wrote:

grammar nazis... Don't let it effect you man!

Don't you mean to say:

Quote:

Grammar Nazis... don't let it affect you, individual!

actually it is

Quote:

Grammar Nazis; don't let it affect you, individual!

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03 Aug 2008, 2:22 pm

sinsboldly wrote:

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Actually, it is "Karma...it's everywhere you're going to be". Or something.

And the grammar police Lau actually has a point this time.

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03 Aug 2008, 2:28 pm

Also, their should be a space between "..." and "it's"
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