RE: W-98SE Fat32ebd
Hit the nail right on the head!
I didn't have a long enough cable to connect the two drives in their
original physical location so they are stacked all over the place, but
everything works as long as I connect both to the same IDE connector. I'm
sure I can work around this. My wife will thank you if I just get the mess
off of her kitchen counter.
Thanks for the help, and thanks to all others for their input.
"mrceo255" wrote:
> Here are a few things to check with regards to installing a CD ROM drive:
>
> If you are connecting it to the same flat ribbon cable as the hard drive,
> the hard drive has to have it's jumper set for either Master or Cable Select
> (CS). The CD ROM has to be set to either Slave (if the hard drive is set to
> Master) or Cable Select. You have to have both drives either set to Master
> (Hard Drive) and Slave (CD ROM) and it doesn't matter which one connects to
> either of the 2 drive connectors on the cable or you have to use Cable Select
> on both drives. If you have them both set to Cable Select, the hard drive
> connects to the connector on the end (maybe labelled "Master" and the CD ROM
> connects to the one in the middle of the cable.
>
> You cannot have the hard drive set to Master and the CD ROM set to Cable
> Select or the hard drive set to Cable select and the drive set to Slave (or
> Master for that matter). Make sure you don't have your ribbon cable flipped,
> there is a difference between the Motherboard or Host connector and the
> "Master" connector on the cable. If they are not labelled, you can usually
> tell the difference in the ends, the cable is usually longer between the
> Slave and the Motherboard/Host connectors than it is between the Slave and
> Master connectors.
>
> If you are using 1 cable for the hard drive and another for the CD ROM, both
> should be set to Cable Select. Also make sure your second IDE is enable in
> BIOS.
>
> Windows 98 will auto-detect a properly connected and enabled CD ROM drive
> without the need for any extra drivers.
>
> As for fat32ebd, it does create an emergency boot disk, however, it doesn't
> include all the utilities that the regular Windows Boot Disk includes, which
> can be made by opening the Control Panel, selecting Add/Remove Programs then
> selecting Startup Disk and clicking on "Create Disk".
>
> Hope this helps, if you want more help, send me an email:
>
> mrceo255 [at] hotmail [dot] com
> (I'm sure you know what to do with the [at] and [dot])
>
> Windows 98 isn't dead, just abandoned!
>
>
> "SPORTSCOACH" wrote:
>
> > In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
> > with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
> > I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
> > expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files to
> > the blank floppy in A:/?
> >
> > I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that there
> > is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk and
> > transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
> > cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to install
> > CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be found.
> >
> > I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
> > the computer graveyard.
> >
> > Any Ideas?
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