CD drives aren't recognized after formatting (old PBell Legend 418CD w/ 2 CD drives matsus---a CR-563-B I'm a poor boy that likes to tinker... Been playing with computers since the Radio Shack TRS-80.. plug it in to your tv and a cassette tape player was the hard drive... I even had an adapter for my typwriter to automatically print..!!! Of Course I had to type it first :) Any whoo...I know enough about dos to really screw stuff up ..and sometimes fix it back :) My daughter is going to college and I was going to let her take the ol PB , a nice monitor, and stuff for her homework, and music.. Thought I'd upgrade to win 98se so I fdisked... formatted.. and SYS ed it.. Now it won't recognize my cd drives (it has 2) so i cant load from the cd.. I loaded startup disk 1 folder from my Windows CD from my nuther puter to a floppy.. It began the install all the way up to restart mode , but when it restarts i get a message DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND : 'MSCD001' NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED.. I thought the 98 boot disk loaded drivers for most cd drives ?? did the mscdex.exe thing.. but it gave me somthin' like usage mscdex.exe [/L ] [/L,S,D,R,V ] [D: (drive)] ( not exactly that but like it..) ? 1. What is my path supposed to look like ? is the path in the autoexec.bat ? or is it in config.sys...? 2. I went to the matsus---a site and downloaded 56X_9X.exe ( it looked like the right one ) I executed it here and there.. and every where.. to no avail... By now you probably got the picture, I know enough to really goof it up, Soooooooo... I KNOW how to get around, But I need your help in educating me as to the proper way to treat my computers. Here's the poop.. PB Legend 418CD 2cd drives , one 3 1/2 floppy 75 MHZ pentium. 2 matsus---a ( panasonic ) CR-563-B drives. The C drive is a 1 gig unit. Scandisk showed a clean report. Does the 98se disk not have the right driver to run those, or did I screw something else up.?? I even tried Laplink to transfer the CD straight across but nope.. IS MSCD001 a driver, and if it is.. will it work on those cd drives ?? I think the panasonic site mentioned something about some are proprietary interface while others are ATAPI...and I noticed the drivers listed on the bootdisk were mostly atapi I think. Could that be an issue ?? Below are a few of the drivers for those cd drives i've downloaded.. I believe I've got what I need to put it all back together.. But I don't have a schematic of how the whole thing assembles.. :) My oldest daughter is in Iraq, My youngest is graduating High School in a few weeks !!! and I'm a single Dad raising girls.... so you can see why I have the "do it yourself" attitude.. GIRLS ARE EXPENSIVE...!!! Any assistance will be GREATLY appreciated... :) Bob 58x_dos.exe (63KB) PC DOS and MS-DOS device driver Supported CD-ROM drive: 56x_9x.exe (23KB) Windows 95/98 device driver DRIVER Ver. 2.30 (7/1/98) A drive can not read a video CD under ACTIVE MOVIE with the OS reference driver. In this case,the introduction of this file is required. Supported CD-ROM drive: CR-521/522/523 (1X speed, caddy loading type CD-ROM) CR-562/563 (2x speed, tray loading type CD-ROM) 56x_dos.exe (45KB) PC DOS and MS-DOS device driver (also supported for Windows 3.1 / Windows For Workgroups 3.11) DRIVER Ver.4.12 (4/11/95) Supported CD-ROM drive: CR-521/522/523 (1x speed, caddy loading type CD-ROM) CR-562/563 (2x speed, tray loading type CD-ROM) CD-ROM,DVD-ROM,CD-R(CR-,SR-,CW-,LK-M Series) For Support of OEM drive, basically, we recommend you to refer to the shop where you purchased it. When the drive has been mounted in a PC, please follow the instructions of the PC maker.Device Driver Support Table(2/12/2003) Model I&F Windows3.1 /DOS Windows95 Retail Windows95 OSR2/ Windows98 WindowsNT 3.5/3.51/4.0 Windows XP OS/2 CR-533CR-503 CR-504CR-505 CR-506CR-508 LK-MC509S LK-MC604S LK-MC605XX LK-MC608XX CW-7501 CW-7502 CW-7503 LK-MW602XXX SCSI 50x_dos.exe Ver.1.21 (7/31/97) 51KB OS Standard Support OS Standard Support OS Standard Support OS Standard Support 50x_os2.exe Ver.4.53 (6/28/96) 6KB CR-521CR-522 CR-523CR-562 CR-563 Prop 56x_dos.exe Ver.4.12 (4/11/95) 45KB 56x_9x.exe Ver.2.30 (7/1/98) 23KB 56x_9x.exe Ver.2.30 (7/1/98) 23KB 56x_nt.exe Ver.2.00 (7/14/97) 27KB No Support 56x_os2.exe Ver.2.11 (2/22/95) 51KB CR-572CR-574 CR-581 ATAPI 58x_dos.exe Ver.2.04 (7/27/98) 63KB 58x_9x.exe Ver.sp20 (6/17/99) 563KB 58x_9x.exe Ver.sp20 (6/17/99) 563KB OS Standard Support OS Standard Support 58x_os2.exe Ver.1.12 (4/28/95) 46KB CR-583CR-584 CR-585CR-586 CR-587CR-588 CR-589CR-593 CR-594CR-172 CR-173CR-175 CR-176CR-177 CR-271CR-1750 CR-1760 LK-MC579BP LK-MC684B(P) LK-MC688B(P) CR-7582 CR-7585 CR-7586 ATAPI 58x_dos.exe Ver.2.04 (7/27/98) 63KB 58x_9x.exe Ver.sp20 (6/17/99) 563KB OS Standard Support OS Standard Support OS Standard Support 58x_os2.exe Ver.1.12 (4/28/95) 46KB CR-582CR-171 ATAPI 58x_dos.exe Ver.2.04 (7/27/98) 63KB OS Standard Support OS Standard Support OS Standard Support OS Standard Support 58x_os2.exe Ver.1.12 (4/28/95) 46KB

try re-create the windows 98 startup disk...becasue some files might be missing on the startup disk and causing the cd-rom driver not to work another thing you should do is open up your computer case and make sure the cable is propertly installed and power connector go into bios and check your settings for the cd-rom and make sure everything are correct if it still doesn't work, try replacing the cable or your cd-rom could be bad.. by the way, don't download any drivers from the internet for your cd-rom drives, because they are designed for windows 95 or early version fo operating systems. good luck Girls are cool

Even though most cd-rom drivers are included in Win98 startup disk, some old cd drives still have to have drivers loaded. Unless the drivers have a batch file to configure config.sys and autoexec.bat , the simplist way that I know to load the old cd drivers is to temporarily connect a more up-to-date cd drive to the computer, load Win98, then use add hardware. And you probably do have the right drivers. But try the steps ryan gave you first it could be the bios settings or cables. Hope that helps.

Here is another post that may provide some insight into the problem. http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/8967.html

The CR-563 CD should be a 2x that runs off a soundcard. You will need the SBCD.SYS driver. Boot with a floppy and in DOS, make a new folder called C:\CDROM Copy the SBCD.SYS file and MSCDEX.exe file to the new folder. Do you know how to use COPY.CON to write up a new config.sys and autoexec.bat file ? CONFIG.SYS should be DEVICE=C:\CDROM\SBCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:220 AUTOEXEC.BAT should be C:\CDROM\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001 /M:8 /L:D /V Bonne chance Krystyna