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Dear group:
When I click "My Computer" I see all the drives except my CD-ROM icon.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
wayne
How long has this been going on?
Go to system in control panel and click on performance. Is anything running in msdos compatibility mode?
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Dear DAVEINCAPS:
This just started a couple of days ago.
Under the "Performance" tab I see...
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Memory: 126MB of RAM
System Resources: 71% free
File System: 32-bit
Virual Memory: 32-bit
Disk Compression: Not installed
PC cards (PCMCIA): No PC Card sockets are installed.
Your system is configured for optimal performance.-------------
I installed a 60 GBMaxtor and used their software so my computer could see the entire 60GB.
When I start my computer it looks for a disk in the A: drive and I don't know why.
Also when I boot my computer it displays a message about "EZ-Boot". What is that?
Also when I start the computer I have several options one of which is...
"Start computer with CD-rom drive support."
What do you recommend?
Thanks!
wayne
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You installed the EZbios overlay which apparently was needed so the hard drive would be properly recongized.
The boot menu you're getting indicates you may have copied config.sys from the floppy disk to the hard drive. Post back contents of config.sys so we can check that.
There's some additional info on your problem here:
http://www.mesich.com/cdrommissing.html
but let's check the config.sys before you go through that. It may be an easy fix.
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Dear DAVEINCAPS:
Here is the contents of the config.sys
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rem Moved by Windows Setup - please do not load any drivers above the following line
device=aspi4dos.sysrem Moved by Windows Setup - please do not load any drivers above the following line
[menu]
menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support.
menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support.
menuitem=HELP, View the Help file.
menudefault=CD,30
menucolor=7,0[CD]
device=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys /testmem:off
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001[NOCD]
device=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys /testmem:off[HELP]
device=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys /testmem:off[COMMON]
dos=high,umb
devicehigh=C:\WINDOWS\ramdrive.sys /E 2048
lastdrive=z-------------------
Thanks for the rapid replies!
wayne
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Yeah, that's what you did. Go ahead and delete that. Also post back contents of autoexec.bat because you probably copied that also. (I assume you're bringing it up in something like notepad and then doing a copy and paste.)
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Dear DAVEINCAPS:
You want me to delete my config.sys file from the root dir? I thought I had to have a config.sys for the computer to start.
And you are right. I am using Notepad to copy and paste.
Here is what is in my Autoexec.bat.
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@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
cls
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
set temp=c:\
set tmp=c:\
path=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\
rem - By Windows Setup - copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL
REM - By Windows Setup - set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
rem - By Windows Setup - copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NUL
rem - By Windows Setup - copy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL:ERROR
IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT
echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
echo.
pause
GOTO ERROR:EXT
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL
echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.
echo.IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
IF "%config%"=="HELP" GOTO HELP
rem - By Windows Setup - LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.exe /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%
echo.
GOTO QUIT:HELP
cls
call help.bat
echo Your computer will now restart and the startup menu will appear.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
restart.com
GOTO QUIT:QUIT
echo To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.
echo.
rem clean up environment variables
set CDROM=
set LglDrv=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\NETWOR~1\VIRUSS~1\40~1.XX\scanpm.exe C:\
@IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE------------------
Thanks for the support!
wayne
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Windows doesn't need either config.sys or autoexec.bat to run. Sometimes software you install will add things in autoexec.bat. In your autoexec.bat file a virus scan was added. That's all you need in it:
C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\NETWOR~1\VIRUSS~1\40~1.XX\scanpm.exe C:\
@IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSEIf you want, you can rename both those file with a different extension--like config.xxx and autoexec.xxx--so they'll still be there but not used. Then you could create a new autoexec.bat with notepad and only put in the above lines. That way you'd have your old versions if you needed them.
If you create a new autoexec.bat, the full file path would need to be there. So the file name you would use would be:
c:\autoexec.bat
that way it will be put in the root directory.
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You're welcome. Go ahead and rename config.sys and autoexec.bat and make the new autoexec.bat. Then reboot and see if the cdrom shows up in 'my computer'. If not we'll check some other stuff.
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