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Solve : new hard drive - d drive not recognised in ms-dos? |
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Answer» Hi everyone, the info in the ms-dos window following the ipconfig/all command That's not "ms-dos". Are you sure your cd drive letter is D ? I went to Start...Run...command - and a black window appeared with white writing- I entered ipconfig/all - and the info I posted appeared. Is that not ms-dos?Quote from: ward58 on August 25, 2012, 04:22:15 AM I went to Start...Run...command - and a black window appeared with white writing- I entered ipconfig/all - and the info I posted appeared. Is that not ms-dos? No. It is Windows Command Prompt. MS-DOS was a standalone, single user text-only operating system for PCs first released in the 1980s and used until the 1990s when Windows came along. You did not answer the question about your CD drive letter. The fellows problem is that he can't get connection in Windows. I'll just repeat my suggestion that the router is not supplying DHCP information or the cable is fubar. EDIT: It occurs to me that you may not have ethernet card drivers loaded. If not (check device manager) then download the drivers on the good machine and transfer them by USB stick. Or check the cdrom for the drivers. ...Or is that the problem - you don't have access to your CDROM? Your IPCONFIG information shows that you aren't getting a DHCP configuration from the modem/router If the modem is normal then Windows seems upset - at the very least you should have an IP address that Windows gives the adapter even when there is no DHCP and you don't even have that. What version of Windows is this? This thread will be moved probably.I seem to have inadvertently caused some confusion. The reason I thought I was in ms-dos is that the title bar of the black box says "MS-DOS Prompt". That aside, I have tried another cable without success. Access to the CD-Rom drive is fine (and it is definitely designated as D). I loaded the ethernet card driver from the cd that came with it. Device manager shows the following info for the driver :- C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NDIS.VXD - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vmm32.vxd(ntkern.vxd) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DLKRTL.SYS The OS is Windows 98se. I noticed that sometimes Device Manager did not display the card details on startup/restart, so I physically removed and re-installed the card, and reloaded the driver. On restart, a message displayed along the lines of "the device installed in port 2 shares IRQ with IDE controller. Ensure the device supports IRQ sharing". I assumed this was ok, as the card was in the machine with the old hard drive and worked perfectly well then. I read something about checking the DHCP, but did not understand how to get into it. There was also mention of checking the Registry and possibly changing that, but I know that the combination of ham-fist and ignorance can do much damage, so I left that well alone! Any thoughts? P.S. I don't know what "fubar" means ( or should I not ask?!)Quote from: ward58 on August 25, 2012, 08:44:00 AM I seem to have inadvertently caused some confusion. The reason I thought I was in ms-dos is that the title bar of the black box says "MS-DOS Prompt". OK you finally told it was Windows 98. This very old operating system did use a version of MS-DOS as its command prompt. Hi again, I think I may have solved the problem (more by luck than skill or judgement!). I found an article on the Netgear website that advised altering the TCP/IP settings. This seems to have worked and I have been able to get ONLINE. Hopefully, it won't all go wrong and reverse itself when I shut down and restart. Thanks to you both for your attempts to help. As you can tell, I am not very computer savvy and tend to "make it up as I go along"! Cheers, Peter. Peter, it's good to know that you fixed it yourself. Well done! Greetings Peter, FUBAR=Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. I've heard that some folks don't use the word 'Fouled' when defining this acronym. Best wishes! |
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