Hi I'm trying to put a CDROM in an old Pentium 166, running windows 95b. Basically what’s happened is I’ve transferred a hard drive from an old 486 that died into the newer Pentium 166 but can't get the CDROM to read anything. I'm pretty confident the CDROM works; it powered on, and windows detected it when it booted for the first time with the new hardware wizard. I've searched the net for ages trying to find drivers, but didn’t have any luck. How To Install Windows ReplacementI found a long shot at driverguide.com but it had a sys extension and windows would only look for inf extensions. William P Whitehouse. Is it possible to pull generic drivers off of the windows cd put them on floppy and simply transfer them to the appropriate place? I've also tried using a 95 boot disk from bootdisk.com which apparently has 4 universal CDROM drivers. The default one didn't work, but I was a little unsure of how to change it to the others (will have another look a bit later). Even if this works though, I’m still not sure if it will help. If I do find one of the universal drivers work, can I simply copy it into windows somewhere and use it? If anyone can help me out with this problem it will be greatly appreciated, its starting to wear me down. 28) Installing Windows 95. You must execute the setup program for windows 95. This is located in the primary directory on the Windows 95 CD. Thus once you are in that directly you can begin simply by typing 'setup' or 'setup.exe'. However, we will be using a few parameters to make the installation easier and faster to. Wait for the screen message to appear. Select whether you would like large disk support. Ensure the Windows 95 Boot Disk is in Drive A and press ↵ Enter. Press ↵ Enter to continue with the installation. Click Continue to continue with the installation. Accept the license agreement. I tried to install QuickTime on Windows 10, but was halted by a check that Apple has built in to the installation. Here's how I fixed it. I don't have much experience with old software so its eating up way too much time, especially for something in the good will category. Thanks for the help Crashman I'm not actually able to tell you what drive it is right now (I've left work for the day ). I can tell you it’s a generic brand drive, its 24 speed, and it’s really hard to find a driver for p) at least for me I was getting non atapi compatible errors, with some jumper configurations, but I’m pretty confident this isn't the issue. Install Windows 95 In VirtualboxI pulled the drive out and tested it in a fedora core 2 client and it worked (it sounded like a beefed up lawnmower but it worked I've also tried a few other old drives and had the same results. I'm pretty confident its a software issue, because of the way it was successfully probed by windows during its first boot. I'm almost certain it’s simply getting the right device driver for the cdrom. Where are the CDROM device drivers stored in win95?
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