My Win98 Boot Disk cannot see my CD-ROM Drives?? Please Help

[net1994]

I just created a Win 98 Boot floppy disk and then restarted the PC. I selected 'Start Windows 98 with CD-ROM Support' option, but I cannot use my CD drive?? While booting the diskette, I get the message after it starts, 'CD-ROM Drive not found, abort operation.' The only thing I can think of is that just last month I installed a new HD, and it came with a free ATA-100 controller card. To use this, I had to re-hook all of my IDE devices to the ATA100 card, instead of my Motherboard. The only thing I can think of is that the boot floppy is looking for the CD-ROM drive attached to the MB, and not the ATA100 card. But this is just a guess? Will I have to open up my PC and take the IDE Secondary cable off the ATA card and put it back into my Motherboards IDE 2 slot?? Will this even work?

Any ideas? Please help. Thanks

 

[bot2600]

Yes, the ATA100 card is the problem. You should be able to use the motherboard IDE controller as well as long as you havent disabled it in your bios.

Bot

 

[net1994]

But do I have to physically switch the IDE cable from the ATA card to the MB? Or do I change the MB Bios settings?

Please get back to me ASAP, Thanks.

 

[bot2600]

you will have to move the cdroms cable to the motherboard connector.

Bot

 

[Dyngoe]

Hi,

You're going to have to switch both your CD and HD if you want to copy anything to, or from, your HD. Your ATA100 card is not recognizable in dos. There may be a program out there to enable ATA100 support under DOS, but I don't know of any. I have this same problem each time I install win98 on any of my ATA66/100 drives. Hope that simplifies it.
As Always,
D

 

[Kp99]

Nah read my other post on this same matter...the problem is that the boot cd doesnt reconize the pci ata card, the fix was posted on the other thread, I had the same problem with my AOpen 12x dvd drive, after I edited the files It all worked...later