From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 02:44:45 EST
ALSO, run a memory test from ez setup...
you COULD have bad memory..
and another thing to try is the win98SE emergency recovery diskette.. it has some nice generic
CD drivers on it..
or, borrow an ultrabase and a CD drive.. :-)
i know, you tried, but i need to suggest it, just to cover all bases..
Rob Bell wrote:
> Peter,
>
> There are several things you can do in this situation. First, you need to
> decide whether to do a full system restore from the recovery CD or to just get
> Win98 installed fresh and then add your drivers and apps separately.
> Obviously, before doing anything suggested here, make a backup of your
> important data, documents, files, etc.
>
> If you choose the full recovery option, try booting with your 'amended' boot
> disk and then just run the recovery program from the recovery boot disk from
> DOS (i.e. don't boot the recovery disk). You may have to poke around in the
> AUTOEXEC.BAT of the recovery disk to find out what to run and possibly add
> environment settings from its AUTOEXEC.BAT to the one on your CD-capable boot
> disk. As I haven't done a CD restore to my Thinkpad in a long time, I can't
> remember exactly how this setup works.
>
> If you just want to install Win98 and then add your drivers/apps, there are a
> couple of ways. If you can get ahold of a regular Win98 install CD, copy the
> contents to a separate directory on your HD, delete all other directories
> related to Windows and installed programs, then run the Win98 setup from your
> HD. Since you have a valid license for Win98, it doesn't matter where you get
> the install files from. If you can't find a Win98 CD, then maybe you can
> still get to the Win98 cab files from the recovery CD. I'm not sure what a
> 570 recovery CD is like - you may find them easily accessible, or they may be
> compressed into one big data file. If you can't see them in Explorer, use a
> program like WinZIP to look in any large data files on the recovery CD. If
> you find the cabs, copy them to your HD and repeat the instructions above (for
> the Win98 CD).
>
> If none of these ideas are feasible, maybe you can find someone else with a
> 570 CD drive that is supported that would loan it to you for a day? Oh, yeah,
> one more idea: Can you boot from your PCMCIA CD by putting it first in the
> boot order in the 570's BIOS? Maybe you can just boot to the recovery CD that
> way...
>
> HTH,
> Rob
>
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