aryabhatta79
Junior Member
Hi All
I added a Samsung CD-RW to my system in the Secondary IDE channel as a Master drive. My old Creative CD-ROM is the slave. My HDD is the primary master. All three show correctly when the computer boots up. The problem is that I do not see my CDROM in Windows Explorer and the CD-RW is reading as drive "E". I have two partitions in my HDD and they read "C" & "D". I am running Win98 and my CD-RW works well.
The CDROM does not display what it reads even though it appears to read any CD put into it. If I change the CDROM to be the primary slave, I see it being recognized as drive "E" and my CD-RW no longer is recognized. When I check in Device Manager, I see both drives listed without any conflicts. If I see the properties for both drives, the removable drive option is blacked out and the first drive letter and last drive letter option boxes do not show any drive letters that I can choose, even though these are not blacked out.
Just to make sure, I have in the Config.sys file, ensured that the port settings for the drives are 170, with IRQ 15 and one (CD-RW reading "0" for the master and the other (CDROM) reading "1" depicting the slave.
Pls help in resolving this problem!!!
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I added a Samsung CD-RW to my system in the Secondary IDE channel as a Master drive. My old Creative CD-ROM is the slave. My HDD is the primary master. All three show correctly when the computer boots up. The problem is that I do not see my CDROM in Windows Explorer and the CD-RW is reading as drive "E". I have two partitions in my HDD and they read "C" & "D". I am running Win98 and my CD-RW works well.
The CDROM does not display what it reads even though it appears to read any CD put into it. If I change the CDROM to be the primary slave, I see it being recognized as drive "E" and my CD-RW no longer is recognized. When I check in Device Manager, I see both drives listed without any conflicts. If I see the properties for both drives, the removable drive option is blacked out and the first drive letter and last drive letter option boxes do not show any drive letters that I can choose, even though these are not blacked out.
Just to make sure, I have in the Config.sys file, ensured that the port settings for the drives are 170, with IRQ 15 and one (CD-RW reading "0" for the master and the other (CDROM) reading "1" depicting the slave.
Pls help in resolving this problem!!!
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