W-98SE Fat32ebd

[SPORTSCOACH]

In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files to
the blank floppy in A:/?

I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that there
is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk and
transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to install
CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be found.

I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
the computer graveyard.

Any Ideas?

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:34:02 -0700, SPORTSCOACH
<SPORTSCOACH@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and
composed:

>In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
>with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
>I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
>expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files to
>the blank floppy in A:/?
>
>I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that there
>is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk and
>transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
>cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to install
>CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be found.
>
>I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
>the computer graveyard.
>
>Any Ideas?

Disconnect the IDE cable from your CDROM drive. Install an audio CD,
wait for it to be detected, press play, and listen for sound output
from the headphone socket at the front of the drive. If you hear
nothing, then the drive is bad.

If the drive plays your audio disc, but is not detected by the OS,
then something could be awry at the IDE interface.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

 

[Ron Badour]

The file is located on the W98 CD so chances are excellent that all it will
do is make you a boot disk. Once you make it, check here for the steps to
take (maybe your method is wrong and the CD drive is OK):
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007


"SPORTSCOACH" <SPORTSCOACH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
> with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
> I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
> expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files
> to
> the blank floppy in A:/?
>
> I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that
> there
> is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk
> and
> transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
> cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to
> install
> CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be
> found.
>
> I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
> the computer graveyard.
>
> Any Ideas?

 

[mrceo255]

Here are a few things to check with regards to installing a CD ROM drive:

If you are connecting it to the same flat ribbon cable as the hard drive,
the hard drive has to have it's jumper set for either Master or Cable Select
(CS). The CD ROM has to be set to either Slave (if the hard drive is set to
Master) or Cable Select. You have to have both drives either set to Master
(Hard Drive) and Slave (CD ROM) and it doesn't matter which one connects to
either of the 2 drive connectors on the cable or you have to use Cable Select
on both drives. If you have them both set to Cable Select, the hard drive
connects to the connector on the end (maybe labelled "Master" and the CD ROM
connects to the one in the middle of the cable.

You cannot have the hard drive set to Master and the CD ROM set to Cable
Select or the hard drive set to Cable select and the drive set to Slave (or
Master for that matter). Make sure you don't have your ribbon cable flipped,
there is a difference between the Motherboard or Host connector and the
"Master" connector on the cable. If they are not labelled, you can usually
tell the difference in the ends, the cable is usually longer between the
Slave and the Motherboard/Host connectors than it is between the Slave and
Master connectors.

If you are using 1 cable for the hard drive and another for the CD ROM, both
should be set to Cable Select. Also make sure your second IDE is enable in
BIOS.

Windows 98 will auto-detect a properly connected and enabled CD ROM drive
without the need for any extra drivers.

As for fat32ebd, it does create an emergency boot disk, however, it doesn't
include all the utilities that the regular Windows Boot Disk includes, which
can be made by opening the Control Panel, selecting Add/Remove Programs then
selecting Startup Disk and clicking on "Create Disk".

Hope this helps, if you want more help, send me an email:

mrceo255 [at] hotmail [dot] com
(I'm sure you know what to do with the [at] and [dot])

Windows 98 isn't dead, just abandoned!


"SPORTSCOACH" wrote:

> In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
> with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
> I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
> expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files to
> the blank floppy in A:/?
>
> I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that there
> is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk and
> transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
> cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to install
> CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be found.
>
> I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
> the computer graveyard.
>
> Any Ideas?

 

[SPORTSCOACH]

Hit the nail right on the head!
I didn't have a long enough cable to connect the two drives in their
original physical location so they are stacked all over the place, but
everything works as long as I connect both to the same IDE connector. I'm
sure I can work around this. My wife will thank you if I just get the mess
off of her kitchen counter.
Thanks for the help, and thanks to all others for their input.

"mrceo255" wrote:

> Here are a few things to check with regards to installing a CD ROM drive:
>
> If you are connecting it to the same flat ribbon cable as the hard drive,
> the hard drive has to have it's jumper set for either Master or Cable Select
> (CS). The CD ROM has to be set to either Slave (if the hard drive is set to
> Master) or Cable Select. You have to have both drives either set to Master
> (Hard Drive) and Slave (CD ROM) and it doesn't matter which one connects to
> either of the 2 drive connectors on the cable or you have to use Cable Select
> on both drives. If you have them both set to Cable Select, the hard drive
> connects to the connector on the end (maybe labelled "Master" and the CD ROM
> connects to the one in the middle of the cable.
>
> You cannot have the hard drive set to Master and the CD ROM set to Cable
> Select or the hard drive set to Cable select and the drive set to Slave (or
> Master for that matter). Make sure you don't have your ribbon cable flipped,
> there is a difference between the Motherboard or Host connector and the
> "Master" connector on the cable. If they are not labelled, you can usually
> tell the difference in the ends, the cable is usually longer between the
> Slave and the Motherboard/Host connectors than it is between the Slave and
> Master connectors.
>
> If you are using 1 cable for the hard drive and another for the CD ROM, both
> should be set to Cable Select. Also make sure your second IDE is enable in
> BIOS.
>
> Windows 98 will auto-detect a properly connected and enabled CD ROM drive
> without the need for any extra drivers.
>
> As for fat32ebd, it does create an emergency boot disk, however, it doesn't
> include all the utilities that the regular Windows Boot Disk includes, which
> can be made by opening the Control Panel, selecting Add/Remove Programs then
> selecting Startup Disk and clicking on "Create Disk".
>
> Hope this helps, if you want more help, send me an email:
>
> mrceo255 [at] hotmail [dot] com
> (I'm sure you know what to do with the [at] and [dot])
>
> Windows 98 isn't dead, just abandoned!
>
>
> "SPORTSCOACH" wrote:
>
> > In one of the old posts Ron Badour wrote "you can make a W98 Restore disk
> > with the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W-98CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd".
> > I am always a little leery of clicking on EXE files unless I know what to
> > expect. Does clicking on the Fat32ebd.exe file transfer the startup files to
> > the blank floppy in A:/?
> >
> > I'm having a tough time getting my computer to recognize the fact that there
> > is a CD drive installed in the computer. I've formatted the HD, ran Fdisk and
> > transferred the system files. Tried swapping out the CD drive, flat data
> > cables, checked all connections. The boot disk that I have tries to install
> > CD drivers but a message comes up saying that the CD drive cannot be found.
> >
> > I thought that I would give this "Restore disk" a try before I send it to
> > the computer graveyard.
> >
> > Any Ideas?