Thanks Dave,

OK, I'll need guidance on this one. See replies within your message ...
"Lil' Dave" wrote in message
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Another thing to try is to remove the storage controller in
setttings/system/device manager tab/hard disk controllers. Reboot.
There are three hard disk controllers. Would it be the primary or secondary
IDE?? Or a PCI Bus master IDE?? I am not familiar with doing such a thing.
If you had the PC open recently or moved the PC to a different place,
unplug
and reconnect both the power and ide ribbon cable connectors on the DVD
drive.

Tried that before.

If you have a 98 startup disk, boot with cdrom support.

Do you mean the CD that came with the computer?

Insert a known
working CD (not DVD). Check the D: drive by typing in "D:", hit the
return key. Type in "dir". It should return with data lising the content
of the root of the directory structure. If not, its probably hardware
associated. If it does, its a windows problem.

Another twist is that I had to reinstall something that was "looking" for
the D drive. I couldn't figure how to get around it since my D drive was
not working. So I changed the D drive to be a J drive. Then changed my E
(CD-RW) drive to the D so I could install or reinstall that program.

Nutty

"Nutty" wrote in message
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On my Windows 98SE computer, when I put a DVD into the D drive the
little
light flickers, however it never does recognize the DVD. Do I have
something set up incorrectly? I go into My Computer and can see the DVD
is
not showing up. I click on the drive letter but it keeps me doing a
"retry" that never works. Help. What is going on?
Thanks,
Nutty