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CD DRIVES
CD drives have disappeared from the system. I've tried
reinstalling the hardware but no hardware is recognized. |
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CD DRIVES
Boot with a CD and a floppy start up disk in their respective drives--select
CDRom support. When the A: prompt appears, look above it to see what letter is assigned to the CDRom drive. Then type that drive letter (i.e., D at the A: prompt and hit enter. At the D: (or whatever letter you typed) prompt, type: DIR and hit enter. If you can communicate with the CDRom drive in DOS, it is OK. If you cannot, it is likely broken. You can pull it out and try it in another PC just to make sure. If it works OK: 1. Do you have Tweak UI installed? If so, go to My Computer tab and put marks in all drives. 2. Check for a lastdrive statement in the config.sys file and if it exists, make sure it reads: lastdrive=z 3. Run regedit.exe and open it to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup In the right pane, look for a last drive statement and if it is present, make sure it reads "Z" 4. Control panel, system, performance tab: is there any comment about MSDos compatibility mode? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Ken" wrote in message ... CD drives have disappeared from the system. I've tried reinstalling the hardware but no hardware is recognized. |
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