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by bradley o 1 view

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I am having problems with my CDRom drive. I am running win 98 and when I inserted a win 2k CD It dosn't auto run and crashes the system and now it won't read my cd at all! Could it be that I need secific drivers for the CDRom or is it something else?

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by saihib

You don't need any special drivers for your CD-ROM. As long as it is an ATAPI compliant drive, and it probably is, the only drivers you need are built into Win98. Have you checked the properties for your drive to make sure that auto-run is enabled? From your description it sounds as though the cd itself may be damaged. Does it work properly in another machine?

by bradley o

My CDROm Is ATAPI compatible but it has not started giving me error msg saying that it is not.

by dmiles

try loading the service pack for Win2K(sp1),this will install a update to atapi.
there is no special driver needed for win2k.

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