Win98SE lost CDROM & CDRW drives

[tk149]

My brother's PC suddenly stopped recognizing his CDROM and CDRW drives. They show up in the BIOS, but not in Win98SE Explorer.

Without the CD's, I can't copy the CAB files to the Hard drive. Should I "remove" the IDE driver, and hope Windows rebuilds it?

 

[johnjkr1]

That's one thing to try...you can also try a scanreg /restore in dos to restore the registry.......any idea what he did last? any software installed?

 

[UMfanatic]

this sometimes helps, try switching the cables, even though it shows in the bios it can still be a cable problem

 

[redbeard1]

Is there any exclamation points in his device manager? Usually this is a problem with the hard disk controller in windows.