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by gblumberg

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i have a computer that at startup detects the cdrom as secondary master, which is how it is set, but when i go into my computer it is not there, the c drive has been partitioned and there are 3 other drives showing up, d e and f, when i change the boot sequence to boot to the cd it does just that, but it wont show up on the computer! any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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by chris in windsor

Is it possible that you have last drive set up in your config sys set to F? If so try changing it to Z instead and see if this helps.

by volovoy

Go to Device manager, highlight CDROM and click on properies. Click on tab Setting, check current drive letter assignment. If you have C, D, E and F as hard drives, assign G or one of the next letters to CDROM.

Alex

by ccsbz

backup autoexec.bat & config.sys if you want and then delete then and reboot.

by ccsbz

backup autoexec.bat & config.sys if you want and then delete then and reboot.

by wlbowers

Boot to the menu and enter step by step
confirmation. Watch for the drivers to load
in config sys and autoexec.bat.
If they don't show boot normally and edit
config sys and autoexec.bat. Sometimes
windows will rem out the dos drivers for
the cd-rom and assign it in the device
manager as a generic device. If this has
happen remove the rem on the lines of
the driver and reboot.

Good Luck Lee

by wamey16

Hi

Set the cd-rom as primry slave and the floppy drive as secondary slave (or set the floppy as secondary master).

or if you cd-rom came with the computer contact the drive manufacturer or the computer manufacturer.

see if that works!

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