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Please Help Me :(

Started by farewell , May 03 2005 12:45 PM

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farewell
Posted 03 May 2005 - 12:45 PM

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I have a problem with my older IBM 365X Thinkpad CD-ROM Drive.After installing it, i am recieveing two error messages in the begining of Windows(98).
Those are : Drive Not Found / TDPC001 NOT Found-

I Need Your Help !!! :tazz:

Edited by farewell, 03 May 2005 - 12:47 PM.

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Posted 03 May 2005 - 02:53 PM

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is this a new cdrom that does not work?
did a previous cdrom work?
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:00 AM

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My HDD needed to be formatted two weeks ago and i did it, before format it was working properly. After formatting i setup WIN98 in a compaq Laptop.
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:08 AM

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so the win98 installation was a success, except for the cdrom which had worked before?
what devices are listed under cdrom in device manager?

start>settings>control panel>system>device manager>+ next to CDROM

are there any yellow "!" or red "x"?
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:47 AM

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No CD-ROM alerts there :tazz:
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:52 AM

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are there any devices listed under cdrom?
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:58 AM

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No there is Not
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:59 AM

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do you have an original disk with the cdrom drivers?
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:12 AM

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I dont have, i asked for cd-rom driver from IBM Co. They send me an .exe file.I installed it but as i said at the begining, i received error messages
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:16 AM

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it sounds like it's not the right driver. what is the name of the exe file?
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:25 AM

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CDTPGDOS.EXE
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:32 AM

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that looks like it's for windows 3.1. time to search for a win98 driver.
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:40 AM

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i am trying to find, but i couldnt :tazz:
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:44 AM

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I'm looking, too.
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 04:58 AM

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Thank you for your interest dear, i really need it :tazz:
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