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Win98 not detecting CD-Rom
This is probably not the best NG to raise this question, but the people here
seem to be quite helpful. The PC under discussion is pulling on five years old, but has been working fine otherwise. When I booted up a few days ago, Win98 (not SE) wouldn't detect the CD-Rom anymore. Removed the hardware profile and reinstalled but still didn't work. Booted with a startup disk and CD-Rom worked fine. So... the problem is isolated to Windows. Hadn't done anything particular to incur this change. Any ideas? Pearlf |
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"Pearlf" ice_corona dot yahoo dot co dot uk wrote in message ... This is probably not the best NG to raise this question, but the people here seem to be quite helpful. The PC under discussion is pulling on five years old, but has been working fine otherwise. When I booted up a few days ago, Win98 (not SE) wouldn't detect the CD-Rom anymore. Removed the hardware profile and reinstalled but still didn't work. Booted with a startup disk and CD-Rom worked fine. So... the problem is isolated to Windows. Hadn't done anything particular to incur this change. Any ideas? Pearlf Have you gone into Device Manager & deleted the CD-Rom, restarted Windows to see if it finds new hardware? If it doesn't find it, try going to Control Panel\add new hardware & let it auto-detect. |
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Sounds like the CD-ROM Windows driver on your harddrive is corrupted. At
worst you may have to reinstall Windows if you can't just have Windows detect new hardware. You might try detaching the ribbon cable from the CD-ROM, restart Windows so it sees the CD gone, then reattach the ribbon cable and restart Windows so it hopefully sees the new hardware (the CD) and installs the proper driver. -- DaveW "Pearlf" ice_corona dot yahoo dot co dot uk wrote in message ... This is probably not the best NG to raise this question, but the people here seem to be quite helpful. The PC under discussion is pulling on five years old, but has been working fine otherwise. When I booted up a few days ago, Win98 (not SE) wouldn't detect the CD-Rom anymore. Removed the hardware profile and reinstalled but still didn't work. Booted with a startup disk and CD-Rom worked fine. So... the problem is isolated to Windows. Hadn't done anything particular to incur this change. Any ideas? Pearlf |
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:45:54 +0200, "Pearlf" ice_corona dot yahoo dot
co dot uk wrote: This is probably not the best NG to raise this question, but the people here seem to be quite helpful. The PC under discussion is pulling on five years old, but has been working fine otherwise. When I booted up a few days ago, Win98 (not SE) wouldn't detect the CD-Rom anymore. Removed the hardware profile and reinstalled but still didn't work. Booted with a startup disk and CD-Rom worked fine. So... the problem is isolated to Windows. Hadn't done anything particular to incur this change. Any ideas? Pearlf check your CONFIG.SYS to see if these lines are there lastdrive=z DEVICE=C:\SAMSUNG\SSCDROM.SYS /D:SSCD000 /v adjust the last line to suit your system |
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I used to get this problem with w98 too - I upgraded to 98SE and the problem
went away. "Pearlf" ice_corona dot yahoo dot co dot uk wrote in message ... This is probably not the best NG to raise this question, but the people here seem to be quite helpful. The PC under discussion is pulling on five years old, but has been working fine otherwise. When I booted up a few days ago, Win98 (not SE) wouldn't detect the CD-Rom anymore. Removed the hardware profile and reinstalled but still didn't work. Booted with a startup disk and CD-Rom worked fine. So... the problem is isolated to Windows. Hadn't done anything particular to incur this change. Any ideas? Pearlf |
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Mad Ad said this...
I used to get this problem with w98 too - I upgraded to 98SE and the problem went away. Have a look here, these guys know what they are doing... http://www.toolfox.com/pages/kbone.aspx?id=130 -- º~ dªv¡d ~º |
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