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No cd-rom drives
Name: NanakiXIII Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:03:20 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: P4, 256MB
Comment:
My Windows doesn't recognize my cd-rom drives for some reason. After I installed something from my motherboard disc (I think it was something for using ASCII table 850 or something) I had no more cd-rom drives. Can someone tell me what's wrong and give me a solution?
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:08:35 Pacific
Reply:
This should help:
http://www.mesich.com/cdrommissing.html
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Response Number 2
Name: bigtallboy Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:11:11 Pacific
Reply:
try running the computer w/ the IDE (wide) cables unplugged from the drives. shutdown and start up w/ them plugged in. does device manager say they are working properly?
if you're not sure what was installed can you not uninstall it.
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Response Number 3
Name: NanakiXIII Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:22:01 Pacific
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to DAVEINCAPS: I'm afraid it doesn't.
to bigtallboy: I'm not a technician, I'm just a 13 year old kid. I'd probably screw it up.
And no I can't uninstall it, because all I know is that it installed some .inf files, of which I have no idea what they are.
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Response Number 4
Name: bigtallboy Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:25:25 Pacific
Reply:
it's already screwed up right. good luck.
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Response Number 5
Name: NanakiXIII Date: July 30, 2003 at 14:44:49 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks alot.
And the device manager has nothing about cd-rom drives or IDE...
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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 30, 2003 at 15:19:02 Pacific
Reply:
Exit to dos. At the c:\windows> prompt type:
scanreg/restore
and enter. Choose a registry to restore that has a date that is BEFORE you had the problem. When it's done, reboot. Post back results.
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Response Number 7
Name: NanakiXIII Date: July 31, 2003 at 01:38:08 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks that fixed it.
So what exactly was the problem?
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Response Number 8
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: July 31, 2003 at 16:35:50 Pacific
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Hard to tell. A registry restore just resets the registry to the date you choose when, hopefully, it was working OK.
A registry restore won't fix the problem if it has to do with basic files that are missing or corrupted. But it seems to work good when some software you've just installed seems to screw things up.
Any software (if any) you installed after the date of the restored registry will need to be reinstalled--except of course the software that caused the problem. That's because although the software is still on the HD it won't be recorded correctly in the registry.
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