airek
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Windows95 can't see my CDROM drive
After formatting my hard drive and reinstalling win95 I can't access my CDROM drive. When the computer boots it loads the driver and indicates that the drive was found. No error messages. CDROM is listed as secondary slave. However I have no D: drive in windows explorer or "My Computer". Any ideas how I can get Windows to find my drive?
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What motherboard you have ?
Because this was fresh installation you may not have drivers for bus mastering and this will give you problem in ide device in registry you will get noide that need to be removed you don't need any drivers win95 have driver for all cd-rom on market
Because this was fresh installation you may not have drivers for bus mastering and this will give you problem in ide device in registry you will get noide that need to be removed you don't need any drivers win95 have driver for all cd-rom on market
Boot the computer and go to Device Manager.
How are the hard drive controllers listed there?
Ralph
How are the hard drive controllers listed there?
Ralph
Airek, what solved your problem?
Check out System Properties by ALT+Double Click MYCOMPUTER
Click on performance.
Check out the if :
Master boot rec modified :-
Boot from a fresh floppy disk with FDISK on it. Type FDISK /MBR from your boot drive.
msdos compatibility mode reduces .... :-
Check out your IDE drivers in device manager.
If your motherboard / system has some companion cd / diskettes
find out drivers for your IDE.
You can still use CDROM by putting real mode drivers of your cdrom drive. CD on primary slave used I/O Addr. 1F0 IRQ 14, CD on SEC. MASTER/SEC. SLAVE USES Addr. 170 IRQ 15.