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cd-rom drive and disk administrator?

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by millhouselives 1 view

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I have an IBM 300GL with IDE Lite-on cd-rom drive as original equipment. Do not know why, but I suspect others have been using my work p.c. Problem is: the only way I can see the cd-rom drive after booting (bios does see it)but after booting it it not listed under "my computer" as a drive at all. But if I go into "Disk Administrator Tool, using windows nt4.0 workstation, tool will open listing the finding the cd-rom drive, then I
have to assign a drive letter and it then will appear and operate normally. It seems that maybe something is not starting in services that I need but I am not sure? Any help or lead would really be appreciated.

Thank You,
STeve

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by magetower

Have you looked in your event logs to see if there are any errors showing there? It might give you an idea where to look next.

by joescalia

I hope this helps:

1)Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel.

2)Double-click the Devices icon, and change the CD-ROM device driver from a Startup setting of BOOT to a Startup setting of SYSTEM.

3)Close ControlPanel.

4)Open Disk Administrator, select the CD_ROM drive, and then assign a drive letter. Close Disk Administrator.

5)Restart the computer. Verify that the drive letter still exists in File Manager.
Good Luck...

by millhouselives

thank you very much, once again I forgot to start from the basics and wasted my time looking for a more complicated problem. Sorry for delay was on vacation.

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