I'm running Win98 with a Diamand Data CD Rom assigned to drive E. When I try to view the drive I get "E:\is not accessible the device is not ready", but I don't think it has anything to do with the mechanics of the CD ROM, as it automatically comes up with error as soon as I click on the drive. Everything else seems okay, because I can even right click on the drive and eject without any problems, it just doesn't seem to read the drive. Even when I insert a disc, the light flashes as if it's reading it but nothing else happens. I've replaced the data cable and still no luck. Can anyone help???

Has dust stuck out there in the cd rom..clean it and try again. Or may be somehow the cd rom settings/configuration may have been changed. I think u shud also try going to,control panel and then clicking system and then cd-rom.Then find out yourself.

Go to system properties, device managet tab... check if there's an yellow exclamation mark beside your CDrom drive.... if there is... you should try to upgrade your driver..... (maybe it got damaged for some reason).... also... try to boot using a win98 bootdisk.... choose "with CDROM support" .... once the PC booted.. test your CDROM if it works... IF IT DOES... then I assume that a driver or some config in win 98 is causing the problem... IF IT DOESN'T WORK... then I assume that your device is deffective... goodluck!

Thanks dan & Ed. I tried booting from win98 bootdisk, then went to my CD Rom Drve E:), then typed "dir". But strangely enough it didn't seem to read the CD but stated: Volume in Drive E: is MS-RAMDRIVE Directory of E:\ Attrib.exe Chkdsk.exe ....and a number of other files Does anyone know if I have set up my CD Rom incorrectly or something, because it seems to think my E:\ contains the above files even though the CD I had in it didn't? Although when in Windows I can right mouse click on the E:\ and select eject and the CD Rom ejects.....I don't know what's going wrong!!!! Thanks Dan