hello i,m working on an acer 166 mhz cpu 16 megs of ram 6 gig hd.o/s 95b it crashed yesterday well doing norton antivirus up date useing norton 2001. computer would only boot to dos screen and nothing else. i tryed. to reinstall windos from dos disk a: c:windows\options\cabs\setup it would not go. uninstaled norton from dos and did the windows reinstall it worked system restarted and all is fine ecept the cd -rom is not in the device manager. looked in registery for NOIDE not found. its in bios ans start up screen. it works from dos with boot disk or windows full insall cd will run. it worked befor windoz reinstall. i dont useally work with 95. any help with this would be grately apreceated. have a nice day

Go to 'performance' in system in control panel and see if anything's running in msdos compatibility mode. If not, see if 'add new hardware' in control panel turns it up.

Hi wawadave...try this 1. Go to Device Manager 2. Click first entry in Hard Disk Controllers, which will be for PCI BUS Master IDE Controller 3. Click Properties and then Settings 4. In Dual IDE Channel Settings, choose "BOTH IDE Channels enabled"

hello i checked performance and yes there are things running in msdos compatabilitie mode now what ? thanks and krystyna i,ll check your solution tomorrow and post back with resaults have a nice day

Scanreg/restore works when my cdrom does that. But since it's been that way since you reinstalled windows it wouldn't work for you. There's a lot of things that can cause that--hardware conflicts, viruses, drivers--so I don't think a specific answer is possible. But that is the reason your cdrom isn't showing up. A google search using 'ms dos compatibility mode' will turn up a lot of info. A recent post suggested that loading dos drivers in config.sys was more likely to cause that to happen. If you are doing that you might want to temporarily rename config.sys and autoexec.bat and see if that helps. Exit to dos and at the prompt type: ren config.sys config.xxx and return. And ren autoexec.bat autoexec.xxx and return. This will rename them with an xxx extension so they won't be processed. If it doesn't work you can rename them back: ren config.xxx config.sys ren autoexec.xxx autoexec.bat Hopefully it'll turn out to be an easy fix--maybe Krystyna's suggestion will work.

Possible that you also have a boot sector virus...since there was not a NOIDE in the registry. Boot with a clean write-protected Win 95 floppy, and at A:\ prompt, type FDISK /MBR

hello done the fdisk /mbr win 95b dose not have scanregrestore. setting the ide drives to deul chanels brings the cd-rom icon up in device manager but cant get driver from cabs and have you to figure how to get them from full install cd of 95 thx for your help i,ll try the advice and post back