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Answer» Trying to repair my old pc which won't load it's win98. I have made up a boot CD with DRDos 7 which sees my 2 disks and 2 CD drives. But I need the DOS native drivers for the ZIP drive. Where to get them and what commands to place in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to access the ZIP drive? Trying to repair my old pc which won't load it's win98. I have made up a boot CD with DRDos 7 which sees my 2 disks and 2 CD drives. But I need the DOS native drivers for the ZIP drive. Where to get them ... Check out: http://www.storagedrivers.com/drivers/31/31083.htm http://www.storagedrivers.com/drivers/71/71025.htm http://pw2.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/dos.html http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14438.html Quote
There are a couple little 'wait' programs out there, that if placed in autoexec.bat would allow you to configure a pause of x seconds. But I'm not sure that is exactly the best way to GO for what you WANT. As far as slowing things down so you can see it: For the bios stuff, try hitting the pause key when whatever you want to review is on the screen. Does that stop the process, until you hit ESC? For config.sys and autoexec.bat, try tapping the F8 key repeatedly as soon as the boot process starts to read from the drive. It should put you in a multiple choice menu. One of the choices is line-by-line confirmation. Another is to create a boot log - that might be handy to review later. Would either of these accomplish what you need? I hope this helps. Thanks all for excellent responses. One problem remains. When I evoke "guest.exe" or "guest.exe = H:" in the autoexec.bat file or from the command line it says it can't assign a drive letter. I do have "lastdrive=Z" in autoexec.bat. What is missing? I forgot to ask how to create a boot log. Thanks Quote Thanks all for excellent responses. One problem remains. When I evoke "guest.exe" or "guest.exe = H:" in the autoexec.bat file or from the command line it says it can't assign a drive letter. I do have "lastdrive=Z" in autoexec.bat. I've got a Zip drive .... somewhere.... that's the problem, I haven't USED it in ages. I remember using guest with it too. But as for the particulars, it has been too long. I'm sorry, I just don't remember the finer points about configuring and using it. You might have to wait for somebody else to come along here and advise you. Or, have you tried various word combinations in Google? You can't be the only one that ever had that happen. Quote I forgot to ask how to create a boot log. ?? Did you try the F8 key? (see above post) What happened when you did? Did you get a menu to choose from? Btw, did the Pause key help for stopping the boot process so you could see what was going on with what bios was seeing? Thanks guys, I tried the PAUSE key and it worked fine. Didn't try the F8 key yet. Quote Thanks guys, I tried the PAUSE key and it worked fine. Didn't try the F8 key yet. Aha. The F8 key is what should get you a menu. As stated PREVIOUSLY, one of the choices will allow you to step through and confirm or deny the loading of each line. Another choice would be to create a new bootlog. I haven't tried this in ages - so you'd have to try it and then look for it. Examine it. See if it holds anything useful to you. Let us all know if it what it held was what you needed. It might help somebody else here someday. |
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