No CD ROM in WIN98

[PAT31850]

Have a small machine that I have split the drive into 1g and .6 g. Had to format the C and left all my info on D.When I reload Win 98 and gets to the last reboot it looses the CD rom drive and can't load some of the last files and drivers. It does not show a Cd drive at all but you can use a boot disk and access the drive. You can get Windows to work but no drive. Need to load SE and the rest of the software. Board is an Asus P5A no OC or
anything just a plain one for office. Had no problems when i loaded the first time. HELP PLEASE. Love a
Mystery but this is getting me down.

 

[Ghost]

I know one time, when I'd gone into the BIOS and fiddled with the boot order, I had some problems in the last stage of a re-install of Win98.

I don't remember exactly what I did to cause the problem. I may have set it to boot from SCSI first....but during the last reboot of the install. I remember seeing a Windows error message.

I went back into the BIOS and changed the boot order, and it worked.

Not sure if this would be of any help....

Good luck,

Ghost

 

[BigToque]

I always have this problem on my moms computer (my old computer).

Just click cancel on installing the drivers, then when it asks you to reboot for the last time, reboot, get into windows and go to the device manager delete all the devices with exclamation and question marks, reboot and install from the cd drive.

 

[Benasaki]

Here is a tip. Use your 98 startup disk or a cdrom boot disk and get to the cdrom dos prompt. Copy the contents of the win98 directory to a directory on your c: drive called "cabs". You will probably have to make the directory. Switch back over to the cdrom prompt and type setup. There you go... No more CDrom woes. Did I leave something out?