Hello, I've a friend who just managed to corrupt his W95 files to the extent that I recommended a format and reinstall: it still boots to dos via f8, but won't load windows. Unfortunately, the cd drive has gone missing, so we won't be able to reinstall from the windows cd. The machine is a 486 with an award bios (Award Modular BIOS v4.05g) and the CD drive is a Goldstar 2x, Gcd-R420B. I've compared his system to mine (which also has an Award BIOS and a Goldstar CD, though later ones) and while neither of our CD drives show up in the BIOS setup screens, mine is detected at some point, as I get a message shortly after the memory check saying "CDROM detected" and giving the model number, and then on the next screen (just before the os kicks in) it shows up as Secondary Master. On my friend's machine neither of these things happen. I made him a copy of a boot disk which, on my machine, boots into dos and loads mouse and cd drivers, and it doesn't work; unfortunately I wasn't there when he tried it, so I can't say exactly what error messages came up, but essentially it said there was no cdrom drive. The config.sys contains the line device=gscdrom.sys /d:mscd000 and autoexec.bat has the line mscdex /d:mscd000 and both gscdrom.sys and mscdex.exe are on the disk. So, is there something else I can try (like changing the switches in those two lines, perhaps?) or is the CD drive broken? Oh, btw, the leads are all plugged in properly, and it did work before all this. Thanks for your help. Ben

Hi, Most later CDROMs has IDE interface and connected to the same port as hard drive, but older CDROMs usually have propriatory interface and connected to special interface card or to the sound card. If your friend have such CDROM I think your driver will not work for him. Try to find the diskette with driver which came with his CDROM and install driver from it. Also visit http://www.lgeservice.com/drivers.html site. Seems like they have drivers for this CDROM here. Good luck, Igor M