Missing CD-ROM in win98?

[CrazyHelloDeli]

I remember a few articles about causes but of course im drawing a blank, anyone help me out? Thx

Missing as in, BIOS sees CDROM but its not in my computer...happened after upgrade from 95 to 98. No biggies was just curious if anyone knew of the articles/problems im refering to🙂

 

[bacillus]

provided all your hardware is connected correctly then possible reasons include 1). Wrong IDE drivers installed. 2). the NOIDE entry in the registry 3). a bad Master Boot Record.

The Master Boot Record may not be really bad but if Win doesn't like it then your stuck in DOS Mode and no CD-rom support. Try to do a quick FDISK /MBR from a good Boot Floppy.
As for the NOIDE entry, Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS
You should see a value named "NoIDE". Delete it, close regedit and reboot!
let us know how you get on! 🙂