First, I have Win98, two hard drives, a CD-ROM, and a CD-R. My C drive is primary master, CD-R is primary slave, my second hard drive is secondary master, and finally, the CD-ROM is secondary slave. The BIOS finds them fine, and I get into Win98. I look at My Computer. It shows: C: (main hard drive) D: (second hard drive first partition) E: (second hard drive second partition) F: (CD-R drive) And that's it. I expect a G drive to signify the CD-ROM. But wait, I went to the RUN command prompt and entered G: and pressed enter. A box comes up showing the contents of my CD-ROM! It recognizes that G is my CD-ROM after all. I can run programs off my G Drive (my cd-rom) just fine and listen to music as well. But in My Computer and in Windows Explorer - NEITHER SHOW THE G DRIVE. I've refreshed and it still won't show up even though it is there. What do I need to do to get the G drive to show up at LEAST in Windows Explorer so I can look at the contents of the drive in there? Thanks.

Now you have music and no cdrom. Do you have TweakUI installed? If so open it and click on the My Computer tab and put a check mark on at least two drive letters more than you actually have. Sometimes not having all the drives checked will do that. I'd also try both HD's on the primary ide and the two cdroms on the secondary which sometimes helps unless your cdr specifies differently.

i have a similar problem. i had a h/drive and a cdrom installed (win95) working fine until i installed a second h/drive. now i cant get the cd to work at all. i have the 2 drives as primaries and the cd as slave. its recognised at bootup and dos, but not by windows . in device manager i have a standard dual pci ide contoller installed ok. the cd rom controller has an exclamation mark on it presumably because it thinks theres nothing there.if anyone could help id be grateful.

I'm having a similar problem. I have a HD, a CD ROM, and a CDR. No matter how I configure them, via the IDE cables, both CD drives have the same drive letter. Both drivers are present and working. If I disconnect one of the two CD drives each one will work fine. I'm clueless..... I really need some help on this one.

i've similar problem. All 4 drives are detected by the BIOS, Pri master: harddisk Pri slave: Zip disk Sec master: harddisk Sec slave: CDROM But in windows only shows c: harddisk D: zipdisk E: harddisk cdrom not found.

I had the same problem when adding a CDRW drive. Even though my config.sys didn't have a lastdrive parameter set, my registry had a lastdrive entry set to E:. I changed this registry entry to Z:, rebooted and now a drive letter is assigned to my CDRW. It may be possible to just delete this entry as well, but I haven't tried it. I'm guessing that this registry entry gets left behind when upgrading from windows 95 and doesn't cause problems until you add a drive. Another problem caused by this registry entry was an "Invalid Local Device" error when trying to map a network drive.