keithen16

i need help i tried to install windows 98 on virtual pc 2007 and after i select my boot device it loads then after i press enter to install windows 98 it says: CDR101: device not ready drive D.

my system info is OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name KEITH-PC
System Manufacturer Compaq-Presario
System Model RR790AA-ABA SR2150NX
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz, 3325 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 5.14, 4/11/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"
User Name keith-PC\keith
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 1.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.08 GB
Total Virtual Memory 3.75 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.62 GB
Page File Space 2.04 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
please help

kev1952

Been a while since I've played with Virtual PC but you need to setup the CD drive before you can use it (tell it which physical drive to use). Use the help files with VPC and search for the answer - I know it is there.

TheOutcaste

Are you booting from the Win98 Startup floppy, or the Win98 CD? Using the physical disk or an image?

keithen16

i boot from the image file on virtual pc 07. i select an option and it says choose image

keithen16

still doesnt work that is weird

kev1952

Did you create the image file yourself? VPC doesn't come with a ready to go Win98 image - you have to supply that.

TheOutcaste

If booting from the floppy, that may be because it's using the wrong CDROM driver.
If you are booting from the floppy, if you can post the autoexec.bat and config.sys files we might be able to spot the problem.

If booting from a Win98 CD image (iso or img) I'd suspect the image wasn't created properly, might just have to create a new iso from the disk.

keithen16

no i got it from someone else

keithen16

maybe is wasn't created properly. maybe your right, but i wouldn't say cdr101 device not ready would it

Samson.Real5

Actually error reading your windows 98 cd If you are not using Windows Second Edition then it may the problem but if you try to reinstall with the clean bootable disk then it may work try ones.

TheOutcaste

If the boot image used to create the ISO does not include the proper CD-ROM driver, you could get the CDR101 error.
You should first get the option to boot from Hard Disk or boot from CD-ROM
Then you should get the option to Start Win98 Setup from CD, or start the PC with or without CD-ROM support. (Screenshot #1)
If you select #1, it will then try to load several basic CD-ROM Drivers until it finds one that works, ending with loading MSCDEX (Screenshot #2) and then presenting the blue Microsoft Windows 98 Setup screen.
It should actually use the first driver, as that's the only one that will show the number of devices line.
If you don't see it trying to load these drivers then the image was not created correctly.

Always possible that there was some glitch when VPC 2007 was installed, doesn't take long to uninstall/re-install to rule that out.

Attached Images

	Win98CDBoot1.JPG (29.6 KB, 2 views)
	Win98CDBoot3.JPG (49.9 KB, 2 views)

keithen16

is there someway i could put, integrate the cdrom driver if that is the problem in the iso file

TheOutcaste

Might be easier to get a Win98SE boot floppy, then start setup after booting with the floppy image.

You can download one from www.bootdisk.com. Scroll down to the section titled Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp

keithen16

i dont have a floppy drive on my computer just a cd drive and i can play dvds on it. and what will a win98se floppy do to help me i dont know how to use the floppy could you tell me how it works how i use it and what it does thx for helping

TheOutcaste

The Virtual PC has a floppy drive though, and can use an image file stored on your hard drive.

Seems I grabbed the wrong link, it should have been http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
Scroll down to the section titled Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp
Download the Win98SE file (win98sc.zip)
Extract the win98sec.img file to your hard drive someplace. This is the floppy disk image you will capture.
Start the WIn98 Virtual Machine, then immediately click Floppy | Capture Floppy Disk Image... and browse to the image file you extracted.

When VPC boots to this floppy image, the CD-ROM drive will be Drive R:
Load the Win98 CD Image from the CD menu, the start Win98 setup by typing R:\setup.exe
The screenshot shows the files contained on the floppy image.

Attached Images

Win98SEC.JPG (30.1 KB, 2 views)

keithen16

still has an error

TheOutcaste

So after booting with the floppy, type R:\Setup.exe, and you get this error:
CDR101: device not ready drive R.
Do you get the same if you type DIR R:?

If so, I'd say you have a bad image, or your VPC install is corrupted. Can you boot the VM using your Vista disk?
If not, I'd uninstall/re-install VPC 2007

keithen16

nothing works. you're definitely right its a bad image thx for the help