HELP: Win98 won't recognise new CD-RW drive

[tdawg]

I recently tried to install a cd-rw drive in a friend's computer. Because of a lack of space, I replaced the CD-ROM drive with the CD-RW (A verbatim model--rebadged liteon?--from office depot, or something). Anyway, the drive is identified in the BIOS, and the icon for the drive shows up under 'My Computer', but trying to use the drive only results in a dialog box saying, 'D: drive not accessible' (of course there was a cd in the drive at the time).

How do I get windows 98 to recognise this drive? Under the hardware devices tab, the drivers for the drive are 'present or not needed' and troubleshooting section says, 'this device is working properly'. I don't know what I can do to get the drive recognised. The jumpers are set correctly and the drive is getting powered. The computer specs are as follows (this comp is mainly used for word processing and light internet):

AMD K6-2 500 | 512mb SDRAM | 5 gig HD | Matrox PCI video card | Windows 98 SE

That's all I can remember.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

tdawg

 

[bacillus]

but trying to use the drive only results in a dialog box saying, 'D: drive not accessible' (of course there was a cd in the drive at the time).

is this occuring when you try to burn a cdr?
can the drive read data from a cd?
what burning software & version are you using?
tried updating your ASPI layer?

 

[tdawg]

This is occurring when I try to read a cd. I tried to install Nero, that came with the drive, and I only got as far as the dialog box error.

I did not try to update the ASPI layer; I'm not sure how to go about doing that. If you could tell me how, I could give it a try.

Thanks,

tdawg

 

[Woody419]

Start in "Safe Mode" and delete the cd-rom & cd-rw drives in the device manager. When Windows restarts it will find new hardware and everything will work again.