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Hardware / CD ROM Not displaying

« on: October 23, 2003, 06:35:44 AM »

The burner and the hard drive are on different IDE cables.    In the BIOS setup, the IDE channels list the exact name of the burner.  Again,  I can access the burner from a DOS boot disk,  just not Windows.  I tried using Add Hardware and adding a CD ROM controller.  There are three that are native to Win98 and when I loaded two of them, I got the yellow exclaimation marks.  The third one, the "Sony" seems to have loaded fine.   But I STILL can't get Windows to see the drive.  

The difference I can see from the other Win98 machines I have is in "device manager."   On the other machines, in device manager, there is a category for CDROM.  It is missing on this box.  When I added a CD ROM controller, a CD ROM controller category appeared.  But not a CDROM category.   Wierd.

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Hardware / CD ROM Not displaying

« on: October 21, 2003, 04:33:56 PM »

I have a Windows 98se box.  The CD ROM Drive stopped working last week.  I purchased a new CD/RW drive and installed it.  The jumpers are  correct.  The BIOS recognizes the CD/RW as a CD/RW.  When Windows boots, there are no CD Drives in Explorer.  When I check Device Manager, there isn't a category for CD Drives.  When I boot from a floppy boot-disk, I can access the files on the CD ROM.   Any ideas?