Hello, my cd rom drivers are installed in dos, and have always been recognized automatically by windows 95. The other day, i checked in windows, and no cd drive was present. I went into dos, and loaded the drivers. It said ' cd rom found on slave iso bla bla bla' but when i typed the drive letter, it said invalid drive letter. It is still a problem. Please help!

Check for errors during the boot when the config.sys and autoexec.bat files are being processed. Maybe you accidently deleted the driver file or something like that.

like hank said, double check to verify that you at least these files are on your harddrive: mscdex.exe oakcdrom.sys Then open your c:\autoexec.bat and verify that this line exist: c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /v /m:8 Then in you congif.sys (all these files should be located in your root directory [c:\]) verify that this line exist: DEVICE=C:\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:mscd001 These commands will load the CD-ROM drivers through DOS and should be recognized through Windows. Good Luck

Now since the CDrom is not usable in Windows either, it could be that the CDrom is dead. First of all, in newer machines, the BIOS should detect the rom and hard drives and would be accessable inside windows whether a dos driver is installed or not. And since your using a device driver for dos, I am going to assume that your using windows 95 or 98. Even if you have no drivers for the rom, it should still work windows. First thing to check is this. When you put a disk in, do you here the rom working and spinning the disk? If you don't, then the rom is not doing its job. Sometimes, CDroms can be fixed by opening them up and blowing the dust off from inside. You can also move the eye back and forth gently and free it up. I have saved many a dead rom that way. Now, if your using one of those old proprietary roms that need it own controller, than there may be just a driver problem. I hope this info helped out. Good luck

I hate to disagree with Tom Fleeman because he is very knowledgeable. However there are some cdrom drives that Win9X does not handle. Drives connected to a sound card with proprietary interfaces for example. Matt might (probably?) has one of these.

I have a problem with the autoread of my cd rom. My cdr works but in never autoreads. Once I use one cd it stores that title and i have a hard time opening explorer to view the cd contents form "my computer" Please help.

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