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reinstalling CD drive drivers
Name: ChromeShark (by croftstorm) Date: November 13, 2004 at 14:06:53 Pacific OS: W98se CPU/Ram: 60mb
Comment:
My CD drive isn't working and from what I can gather it seems to be a problem with the drivers. I've not got much idea about this kind of thing, can someone tell me how to reinstall them?
Name: ham30 Date: November 13, 2004 at 15:08:36 Pacific
Reply:
Win98 has a built in driver for CD drives. To see if it's possibly a hardware problem, boot from a win98 startup floppy and see if you can access it from Dos.
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Response Number 2
Name: cliffpage Date: November 13, 2004 at 15:54:07 Pacific
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in case you do not already know this - when you boot from a windows 98 floppy boot disk, your cd rom drive letter will normally be one letter higher. If your hard drive is C , that will stay as C. but if your CD rom is D, that will jump to E whilst in this mode. It is something to do with the boot disc creating a virtual drive D temporarily just whilst you are in this mode.
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Response Number 3
Name: David_Hughes_84 Date: November 15, 2004 at 14:23:10 Pacific
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I am having a very hard time with my cd rom, i came back from a trip to ontario and now it is not reading it. I unplugged it from the mother board, and made sure that it was not being recignized, but it still won't let me do it, it tells me to insert the windows 98SE disk so i do and then it tells me that it is not there. please e-mail me if you can help. Thank you
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