I have bought an old Toshiba 7000CT protege and am trying to install win 95, it has Pll 64 meg ram 4.3 GB HD the HD has been formatted
it is set up to use a external cd rom and I don't have it, I have win95 on two floppy's when I try to install it says installing win 95 then comes up with this error message:
CD- ROM Device driver for IDE (four channel supported)
driver version: v340
device name : banana
No drives found aborting installation
Device driver not found :Banana
no valid cd rom drivers selected.
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Then you won't be able to install it without those disks (I could be off with the 30 - but at least 15).
You COULD remove the hard drive and get a notebook to desktop hard drive adapter kit ($5-20 on ebay) and then put the drive in a desktop. From there, you can copy the contents of the 95 CD to the hard disk and then disconnect the drive and put it back in the notebook. Then boot up with a dos disk and run setup from the hard disk. I've done this a number of times with a Toshiba Libretto.
Try searching EBay for a copy of Windows 95 on floppies. Windows 95 is so old now that you will probably be able to aquire one for $10-$20 possibly even less. Microsoft has completely dropped support for Windows 95 now and so have most developers of software and drivers. Most new software and hardware will not be compatible with Windows 95. Loading it will be fairly limiting, however, without a CD-ROM drive you will have great difficulty loading anything else. I don't know if you could ever order Windows 98 on floppies, even when it was popular.
Alternatively, if you can afford it, you could try to purchase an external CD-ROM drive for your laptop. I have no idea what sort of price you would be looking at for this. Also, you would still need the Windows 95 CD-ROM to install it.
You could also borrow a CD-ROM drive and use this to install Windows 95 before returning it. I have sucessfully done this before, but you will still not be able to install any CD-ROM based software or drivers in the future.
Do you have the Windows 95 booklet which has the licence key on it? Without it, you will not be able to complete installation regardless. Whatever you do, when you go to install Windows 95 you need the booklet to make it legal and the licence number to complete the install.
The only workable solution for WIN95 installation on computers without internal CD-ROM drive would be to use MS-DOS 6,2 interlink-interserver feature that works over bidirectional LPT cable. You need to obtain MS-DSO 6,2 boot disks with INTELINK.sys and INTERSVR.SYS file ( drivers) then you can connect your laptoo to any Windows 9x PC transfer Win95 or even Win 98 installation cabinet files and start install proces from Toshiba's hard-disk.
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Anyway you 'll need 13 Win95 installation floppies or .
There are other options like installing FREEDOS first and then installing WIn 3.11 with its networking facilities so you can transfer WIn95/Win98 installation files to thehard-disk over the Ethernet network card or LPT ports.
more info at:
http://www.freedos.com and
http://www.freedos.org/fre
You can also coppy all Win95/98 installation files to the USB flash drive ( min. 128 Mb capacity) boot laptop from floppy with USB driver and copy installation files from USB storage to the Toshiba's hard-disk in the folder c:\win95inst or c:\win98inst folders and then launch the setup process from hard-disk
Event better you might want to try Linux installation from FTP servers ( you can create your own FTP server, place Linux installation files on it and boot yout Toshiba laptop with FTP enabled Linux boot floppy.)
There are numoerous other options for your laptop .
good luck
nedvis
Here is the freeware floppy formatter utility (FAIZ SuperFormat Version 2.7) you can use to format floppies to 1.71 MB storage capacity so they can hold
win98 installation *.cab files ( usually 1.68 Mb in size).
http://195.241.84.246/zdne
Good set of 10-20 formatted floppies would be enough to transfer 101 Win98 ( first edition) files to yout laptop hard-disk and s start installation from hard-disk.
It'll be time consuming process but it might be worth to try.
good luck
nedvis
There is another option!
You could purchase a backpack brand cd rom drv. It will have a bootable floopy disk to install the drivers that are needed. You will still need either a 95 cd or 98se CD the better solution.
Don't waste your time and efforts on loading 95!
Ebay should have a few backpack cdrom drives for sale!
Good luck!
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by: leewPosted on 2004-12-13 at 18:11:58ID: 12815620
Try posting the config.sys and autoexec.bat from that floppy. It sounds like it's trying to assign a name to a CD device but not being successful.
Can you be more specific as to what you have and what you are trying to do?
It sounds like you are trying to install 95 from TWO floppies? 95 is something like 30+ floppies. Do you have a CD ROM drive for this? If so, what kind? External? Sounds like you're saying the toshiba was setup with a blank hard drive but intended to connect to an external CD-ROM which you don't have?