8100 CD-WRITER DOS Driver Problem

[Russell Hunt]

If I try to boot from a Win98SE emergency startup disk it hangs when loading the OAKTECHNOLOGIES MSCDEX driver, no message it just locks up.

The 8100 works perfectly in Windows.

I checked the ASPI layer, found it corrupted, repaired it, created a new startup disk but still same result.

I have tried 2 different 8100 drives and the same thing happens !!!!BUT!!!! I changed to a differ brand CD (but this time it was only a CDR NOT a CDRW) and it worked perfectly!!!

I'm stumped,,,, Please advise

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[KenE]

Which software did you use to burn the recovery disks?

[KenE]

...I meant "startup" disks.

[Russell Hunt]

KenE

The Emergency Startup "floppy" disk was just written by the standard Win98SE feature accessed through the Settings / Control Panel / Add Remove Programs.

It all "should" work OK 8-

[SL_1]

You need to go to: http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/swindex.pl?p=hpcd-write9675&l=en&c=MSDOS and download the DOS driver.There are no instructions on what to do next but it is a start.