windows98 cdrom drive vanished

[thecrock]

My friend is running windows 98 on his pc and has just installed a new graphics card. The cdrom drive icon is now missing from the my computer directory, he has a misumi cd-rom drive installed and the power light is on. When you put a cd in the drive nothing happens. We can't open the drive to view the contents of the cd because we don't know were to find it. Would we be able to download a new driver to floppy and then install from that?

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[thevoelk]

Power off the computer, unplug the power and IDE cables from the CD drive. Boot into Windows 98 and let if load without the drive. Shut it down, and reconnect the 2 cables and boot back into Windows. That should solve it.

If that doesn't work, you may have either IRQ/Resource conflicts, or you may have a corupted registry entry. If it shows up in Device Manager with a yellow exclamation point, double click the drive and look at the first page. If there's an error message and it says something like "The Device Can't Start (Code XX)", where XX is a number, search that error message on Google and add Windows 98 to the search, you should be able to find a tech page that has a walkthrough to edit the registry to correct the value.

Hope this helps, I haven't used Windows 98 in a few years, but I remeber doing things similar to this and solving them this way.

[VenGeanCe]

well u can try out methods suggested by voelk.well just go 2 control panel-->system and in that devices/hardware i dun exactly remember well it mite show ur cd drive as unknown device or with yellow !.just go their 2 config ur devices and install the reqd drivers thru ur win98 bootable cd

[offline]

If your friends computer is less than 8 or so years
old (an EIDE cdrom drive) this adapti driver
should work:

http://www.cdrom-drivers.com/drivers/73/73524.htm

If your friends computer is older than that
(a cdrom connected to a sound card or control card)
you will need the specific DOS drivers for that
model of cdrom or try the following:

Remove the drive in the properties box
and restart. When win98 says it can't find
the driver, point it to c:\windows\system\iosubsystem

[thecrock]

The drive does show up in the device manager just like thevoelk said it might, thanks to everyone who tried to help-will post back when we get the drive working.