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About CD-rom problem in win98/win98SE

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by abhi_bugs

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I have installed win98se on my PIII celeron computer.Uptill i installed win98se on my computer i was able to see the cd rom properly in its place with the drive name h:\.I have partitioned my 40 GB drive into 4 partitions of 10 gb each.Now after installation when i rebooted my computer, i was not able to see my cd-rom drive with the letter h:\.So i added the line as "LASTDRIVE=Z" in my config.sys file in c:\ & then again rebooted it.But still the problem persists.Please anyone can help regarding this, then please mail me at my address :-
abhijeet_bhurke@hotmail.com
I will be very much thankful to that person for his/her help.

Waiting for Help eagerly from any person.
Bye

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by marck almada (py)

do you have change the properties of the cd-rom at \control panel\system\cd-rom unit properties.??
because, there you can change the letter to recognize them to h:

do this... first.

Saludos desde Paraguay.

by marck almada (py)

do you have change the properties of the cd-rom at \control panel\system\cd-rom unit properties.??
because, there you can change the letter to recognize them to h:

do this... first.

Saludos desde Paraguay.

by thechas

You most likely need to download and install the IDE bus-master driver for your motherboard.

The built in drivers in W98 just can't deal with the latest chipsets.

If you need help identifying who made your motherboard, the chipset on it, or web site links, check out www.motherboards.org

Chas

by crapaud ergo sum

From the start menu:
Settings -> Control panel -> System -> Device manager. Once here look for 'CDROM' first for an error such as an exclamation point in yellow, if this is found, remove driver, reboot. If not check for the cd-rom drive letter designation under 'properties' with that cd-rom selected. If no problems found or for that matter no cd-rom drive, check the bios for the cd-rom drive. If the Bios does not see the drive, most of those types of problems are hardware, loose cables, power connection or jumper settings.

Guessing from what you have stated, this may be an additional physical drive? If so the jumper settings would also possibly need to be changed, or the order in which they are installed. Again guessing, though as you said that you call this drive ?h? then another hard drive or burner or tape or??

?If? this is an added hard drive, and ?if? you have installed it on a second cable as the third physical drive, it 'may' work better in place of the cd-rom, both jumpered accordingly.

Best guesses from what you have here, best of luck.

todd

by qballrail

Check your Device Manager to see if it lists the device. If so, you can then right-click on the device itself and designate the drive letter from the drop-down menus provided. If not, try repartitioning your drive to just two 20G partitions. Did you install the 40G drive BEFORE setting up W98SE? What I'm asking is, did you have your previous OS installed on that drive or another? It is possible that the number of partions can be causing a conflict of sorts. I have seen stranger things.
Perhaps fdisking the drive once again and reinstalling Windows.
If all else fails, flash your motherboard's BIOS.

by rcom

You didn't mention if the CDROM was showing up at all. I'll assume it does since you were able to complete the upgrade. Since you have 4 partions which would be C,D,E,F the CDROM would be G if you didn't specify a different letter in the CDROM properties as correctly mentioned in answer number one.

by freetech

go to microsoft.com and download powertoys. it will allow you to filter or add in drive letters. if the drive letter is already enabled, then it is something else entirely.
let me know if i can help further.

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