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Windows ME will not recognize my CD-ROM

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by terrance.grossmith 2 views

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I have an Acer 40x IDE/Atapi CD-ROM drive...it is not listed on the MS HCL...however, I am able to boot off of the Windows ME startup disk and see it. But when I go into Windows ME, I cannot see my CD-ROM drive at all. A CD-ROM tab does not even show up in Device Mgr. I have tried several different methods from MS Knowledge Base to try and fix this, but nothing has worked.

Any clues anyone?

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by steve.doig

1st check to see if both your IDE controllers are working. If not, delete from system props and reboot.

2nd if CD is primary slave at the moment, change to 2ndary and vice versa

3rd edit c:\autoexec.bat to include:
c:\windows\command mscdex.exe /d:CD1

edit c:\config.sys to include:
device=c:\windows\system\oakcdrom.sys /d:CD1

You may have to search for oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe. If there's no oakcdrom.sys try vide-cd.sys.

G/L

SD

by terrance.grossmith

hi steve...thanks for the answer. although it didn't really help me, i am accepting your answer anyway because i know that you are correct in your reply. i actually found a document in the microsoft knowledge base that said to do basically the same thing. i tried doing it several times with windows me, but never did succeed. so i gave up and went back to windows 98...i had the same problem with the cdrom not being recongnized, but i did what the document said to do, which was the part aboutthe autoexec.bat and config.sys, not the other stuff...and it worked great, so now i am happy. thank you very much for your response.

T.J.

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