I don't remember getting a boot floppy with my Packard Bell system in 1996, but after reading up on disk formats because of being a participating memory of BA, considering the El Torito standard I mention was issued first in January, 1995 + 6 months to market/actual use, it's probable mine was bootable, and I vaguely remember this to be the case. The 440FX is the most common chipset from that era that does support cd boot. Perhaps the master cd rip is missing its el torito (boot) information, or your bios settings don't match? PNP OS, 64MB Memory Gap, and mind some systems before mid 1997 lacked cd boot capability in their bios. The original partition has been formatted so I presume there is no way I can restore from that. I have Windows 95 OSR/2 installed but there is no drivers for anything and no Packard Bell software. Is this because the CD Drive is in use? The CD Drive Drivers work perfectly in Windows but not in DOS. I do not possess any USB Floppy Drives or any way to write to a floppy so had to burn the Floppy boot image to a CD but it still had the same error as when booting from the Master CD. It tells me I am using an unrecognised CD drive and then says "ErrorLevel is 100". I cannot get the Packard Bell Master CD (downloaded from ) to correctly boot. This drive works fine as both a CD and DVD drive under Windows and the system recognises it/can boot from CDs and DVDs. I suspect it dates from around 1997 and is very comparable to the Multimedia S618 Unfortunately, the original Packard Bell CD-ROM Drive was very flaky so I had to use the only IDE Optical Drive I have, an LG DVD-RW drive which is almost ten years newer than this computer. ![]() It has a Pentium MMX 233, 32 MB of RAM, 2GB HDD, CD-ROM and 3.5" Floppy Drive. There does not seem to be much documentation of this PC online. I have recently found a Packard Bell Multimedia 9033 and would like to restore it back to Windows 95 and all of the original Packard Bell software.
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