cdrom recogniton in win95

TRY THIS: Go to Device Manager and expand the Hard Disk Controller. You should see the manufacturers name listed. You should also see a Primary and Seondary controller icons. Double click on the manufacturers name and select the SETTINGS tab. Change the Dual IDE Setting to Both IDE channels enabled.

If that does not work, check with the CDROM manufacturer, Microsoft's site or the motherboard's site. Is the CDROM attached to the 2nd IDE port on the motherboard? Can you define the drivein BIOS?

This does not really solve your problem but what I have found is if you copy all the win95 files to the hard drive before your run setup and then run setup from the hard drive with no cd-rom drivers loaded windows will almost always automatically find the cd. But if you have real mode drivers loaded while running setup (unless you have a .INF file to deal with it) windows doesn't install support for the cd because it expects the dos drivers.

hope this helps

Shawn

We could use a little more info on this, but here are a couple suggestions;

Run SYSEDIT and check your CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT files for references to the drive. If you find any, add REM (and a space) to the front of the line, save the changes and reboot.

In Device Mgr., do you have exclamation marks on anything in Hard Disk Controllers? If so, go to a DOS prompt and type CHKDSK. One of the last lines will be TOTAL BYTES MEMORY. This should be 655,360, except in rare instances. If the number is smaller than this, I would start looking for a virus. Check the floppy used to start the install. If you are using a pirated copy of Windows, that could be infected too.

Does the drive work in DOS?
Do you get errors when trying to use it, either in DOS or Windows? What are they?

Boot into safe mode, go to device manager and remove all cd-roms in the CD-ROM tab.

run sysedit and remove referrences to the CD-ROM in autoexec.bat and config.sys.

Reboot to normal mode, if the PC doesn't pick up the cd then, run the mother board drivers/bus master drivers for your chipset.

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