solved. thank you

[RgrPark]

I just did a clean install of win98se on my laptop... at first, windows wouldn't recognize the cd-rom but after finding an unrecognized device under system properties, i installed it as a cd-rom drive...now under device manager, it says the cd rom i soworking properly, but it has no drive letter assigned to it... end result being i still can't access the drive...any ideas?

 

[GregMal]

Go into your device manager. Highlight the C/D Rom and click
properties, click settings. Look for the drive letter assignment.
Type in a drive letter (how about X:, for Xfiles, he he).
Click OK.....
Greg

 

[RgrPark]

i cannot enter a drive letter under device manager is what i'm saying. the space is just blank under drive letter assignment and it won't let me enter a letter

 

[GregMal]

Mine also "appears" to not allow me to enter/change the drive letter.
But when I click my mouse cursor on the box, lo and behold, it
allows me to change it. Does yours???
.
By the way, how'd you reinstall windows without a C/D Rom drive???
Greg

 

[RgrPark]

when i use the bootdisk with cd-rom access enabled, it let's me access the cd-rom...had to copy the whole win98 dir from the cd onto the hdd to get all the drivers accessable from within windows since under windows the cdrom was not recognized...
and no..it won't let me enter a drive assignment..seriously

 

[Pederv]

Have you gone to the web site for your laptop and looked to see if there are any drivers for the cdrom?

 

[RgrPark]

yes i went to www.teac.com since the cd-rom drive is a teac cd 316e... it stated it uses the default atapi cdrom driver that comes with windows... i know the cd-rom works becuase when i use the bootdisk w/ cdrom support, it runs fine...it's just not recognized when i boot into windows

 

[Pederv]

Have you tried deleting it in device manager and seeing if it will detect properly?

 

[Pederv]

OH OH OH!! take a look in your config.sys and autoexec.bat and see if there are any remnants of dos cd drivers in there. If not the get the drivers from teac and put them in the config.sys. See if windows sees the cd-rom then. If not then install MSCDEX in the autoexec.bat. After windows sees it you may be able to remove the drivers (first from the autoexec.bat, reboot, then config.sys)and have windows use it's own drivers.

 

[RgrPark]

copied the pertinent lines from the bootdisk onto the config and autoexec files on c drive...worked...thanks!!