Topic: formatted pc now its dead, pc virgin be gentle

[Sandra]

When starting from a boot disk for 98 it creates a virtual drive one letter higher than the hard drive so it is usually D.

This could change your CD drive letter to E, although reading your post again it appears to have created a drive Z.

Have you tried booting from a boot disc then removing it and inserting the recovery disc and typing D:\TOOLS\TOSCDROM.SYS, if that doesnt work try E or even Z.
I havent used DOS for so long now that I cant remember if you need to type CD or not before the line so you wil have to try the various combinations.

Good luck with it and

[spreadspell]

Have you tried booting from a boot disc then removing it and inserting the recovery disc and typing D:\TOOLS\TOSCDROM.SYS, if that doesnt work try E or even Z.

yes i did that but nothing ....

also checked that TOSCDROM.SYS lives in recovery cd at:

D:/>PREPINST/TOOLS/TOSCDROM.SYS

[Sandra]

I am not used to using recovery discs as I usually do a clean install from the standard OS disc.

I dont supose you have tried just D:/run or setup ?

[spreadspell]

i try everything you can imagine ... no results...
i believe that this problem borns from the time that a friend installs the windows XP (sp1) to an old machine that is designed for Windows 98 (se).

i have this problem 2 years now... and the laptop does'nt works properly with XP (warms quick = noise) and the CPU goes to 100%
so i need to make this change!

do your best please! he he
thanks,

g

[Sandra]

I am looking for info on it now but not having much luck so far 

I am wondering if the hard drive had a hidden partition that some recovery CDs look for and that has been deleted or damaged in some way when your friend installed XP 

It would probably be easier to get hold of a 98se windows CD and do a clean install from that but dont give up yet, we dont give up easily on this forum 

[spreadspell]

yes i think we can make it! 

[Sandra]

I dont suppose that you get any options like it says on this page do you ?

http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/FAQ350072001GR01.htm

[Sandra]

Most stuff I have read on using the supplied recovery disc on toshiba laptops seem to use it to make recovery discs with, from a running system.
Hope that this isnt the case here 

[Sandra]

Having spoken to the forums resident but painfully shy old dosser, (aka Scrumpy Jack), he suggests this :

Boot with the 98 CD then remove it and put the recovery CD in and see which files are on it, find the drive letter its on and type DIR /P to explore the CD.
Look for a file called setup.exe or recover.exe or similar.
Then type that filename and hit the enter key and hopefully it will start installing windows.

He says the TOOLS/TOSCDROM.SYS is only there to load the CD drivers so you shouldnt need that as the 98 boot CD has already done that.

Hope that fixes it as I havent been able to find anything else 

[spreadspell]

It Works!

I wanna thank you so much!

My best regards to  Scrumpy Jack and You!
All the best

g

[Simon]

Good news, thanks for letting us know. 

[Sandra]

Pleased we finally got it sorted, was the required file just a setup.exe ?