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windows 95 setup for toshiba sattelite pro

Hi everyone. Im really hoping that someone can help me install windows 95 on my toshiba sattelite pro 415cs. Let me give you some specs:

toshiba sattelite pro 415cs
pentium
90 mhz
swappable cd rom drive (model # xm-1502B)and floppy

I created a boot disk from bootdsk.com and from reading some post i see that you have to click on .exe and coppy that to the floppy, but whenever i download things from there, it just says "please insert floppy" and writes directly to the disk. So thats that about the bootdisk.

Here is what I think the problem is. I think that the computer is not recognizing the floppy drive because it says:
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.
A:\>

I have the drivers for the cd rom (the disk that came with the cd drive) and I tried to just copy those to the boot disk, but i still says the same thing. So anyway, please help me. This thing is driving me absolutly nuts.

Also, when i go to bios, i can only boot either fdd-hdd or the hdd-fdd.

Thanks inadvance for your help.

Goldwing

Download the correct DOS CD-ROM drivers.

Here's the link

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=106086&moid=1073769755&BV_SessionID=@@@@1971667736.1048635020@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadchlikfgefcgfkceghdgngdgli.0&ct=DL

happy hunting.

Goldwing

And here's the direct link to the installer

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/toscdrom.exe

princessjade

ASKER

so should i just copyy that on to the boot disk?

Goldwing

yes, and edit the config.sys

look for a line device=something.sys and change that to
device=toshibadrivername.sys

princessjade

ASKER

oaky, let me try that..i'll let you know the deal

princessjade

ASKER

okay, im tryin to edit the config now, but there are7 lines that say:
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:1f0,14
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:170,15
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:170, 10
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:1e8,12
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:1e8,11
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:168,10
rem DEVICE=cd1.sys /D:banana /p:168,9

last drive=7

so should i change all of those to device=toscdrom.sys /d:toscd001??

thanks so much for your help by the way!

princessjade

ASKER

okay, so first i tried it without changing the 7 lines. didn't work, still coming up banana. Then i changed to device=toscdrom.sys /d:toscd001. still came up banana. i read the installation info an it said to change the autoexec.bat to: MSCDEX /D:TOSCD001 /M:10 /L:[drive letter], and i put the drive letter to d:. restarted now it says toscd001 no valid drom device driver selected
a:\>
now what?

Goldwing

did you copy the toscd001.sys to the a: drive?

princessjade

ASKER

to the a drive? yeah. i did. i edited the autoexec.bat and config.sys. like the directions say, thats the only place i know how to copy it too.

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