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95 Win-CD Rom Installation problems

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by jedeahl

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I have a Computer with win95b which I am trying to upgrade to 98. I have tried installing a CD ROM with its drivers. Dos recognizes the CD Rom as well as windows 95 and says it is installed. BUT when windows comes up it does not show the CD Rom under "my computer". I have tried more than one CD ROM. Is there a setting somewhere that I should aware of and change. I have tried the CD Roms As a slave and a master without luck. Unfortunately I can't upgrade without a working CD ROM. Can some help. Thanks!

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by saihib

Does the CD show up in Device Manager? If it does you can assign it the D designation in Properties/Settings. Also check your BIOS to make sure that all your IDE controllers are enabled. Does the drive work in another machine? Since you have DOS drivers installed you should be able to go into Win95, select Start/Shutdown/Restart in DOS mode and access your CD that way to perform the upgrade. D:\Setup

by tocolote

One option is to reinitialize the hard drive, install WIN95 from scratch (Assuming that you have a WIN2K upgrade CD).

Then install the WIN2K upgrade on a clean PC. It'll be a better installation if you can do this. Upgrades on cluttered systemscan cause problems you won't see for a while.

by gmscne

What you need is the win 98 installation floppy. This disk has its own cdrom driver and will install it regardless of the DOS on your PC. Does the upgrade have one of these?

by wyldchilde

If you have drivers for the cd-rom, you can install the CD-ROM by adding the driver to config.sys and mscdex.exe to autoexec.bat.

by jedeahl

Please Note: The CDRom is not working even though DOS and Windows 95 Says it is there. When I go to My Computer though it is "not there". So I cannot install anything using a CD. I want to get the CDRom working so that I can upgrade this PC in other areas. Such as going from Win95 to Win98.

by roland63

Crapshoot but might help;

Open a RUN box and enter sysedit in the blank field.

do a search in the files that open for "last drive" (ignore the quote marks) its either one or two words. If you find it, make sure its the letter Z after the = sign otherwise windows will never allow any other drives other than the specified ones on that command.

Good luck.

by jmatt

Try TweakUi , tick all the boxes in the My Computor section of
TweakUi . You will gain an extra benefit also , in that you will
now have extra features , when you right click on Start . John .

Download Tweakui complete with install instructions from ,
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

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Another way through the registry .
Start / Run , type in regedit , press OK or Enter , press F3 , tick
1st3 boxes , type in LastDrive , press Enter . Make lastdrive=Z

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