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NT4 cannot detect second CDROM drive
My machine is Pentium II 333/64, multiple boot, with Windows 95/Windows NT4/Windows NT5(beta testing).
Both Win95 and WinNT5 can detect a second CDROM drive (a SCSI CD recorder), but, for some reason, Windows NT4 cannot.
The weird thing is, it was being detected before. Don't remember what I did so that now WinNT4 does not show a second CD drive letter.
Does anybody know how to 'install' the second CD drive in Windows NT4?. As you know, Control Panel does not have options for 'Add/Remove hardware'.
I did the regular installation for this CD drive, with the software provided (drivers, etc.)
TIA for any help provided.
Feliz Año Nuevo ! (Happy New Year!).
Efrain R Portales
Both Win95 and WinNT5 can detect a second CDROM drive (a SCSI CD recorder), but, for some reason, Windows NT4 cannot.
The weird thing is, it was being detected before. Don't remember what I did so that now WinNT4 does not show a second CD drive letter.
Does anybody know how to 'install' the second CD drive in Windows NT4?. As you know, Control Panel does not have options for 'Add/Remove hardware'.
I did the regular installation for this CD drive, with the software provided (drivers, etc.)
TIA for any help provided.
Feliz Año Nuevo ! (Happy New Year!).
Efrain R Portales
Try using Disk Administrator and assigning it a drive letter.
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Disk Administrator does not provide a solution for this.
What it can do is change the drive letter for a specific configuration, but will not add another letter for a drive if the system does not recognize it.
Thanks anyway for your reply.
What it can do is change the drive letter for a specific configuration, but will not add another letter for a drive if the system does not recognize it.
Thanks anyway for your reply.
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Your suggestion led me to discover there was a conflict between the CMOS being setup to PnP enabled or disabled.
First, I had the setup as PnP enabled because I have a PCI PnP Winmodem and it was working ok. But, with this setup, the SCSI CDROM was not being detected.
When I changed the setup to 'PnP disabled', I could install
the drivers and had the CD drive detected. However, with this setup the modem was not detected.
After doing some other changes, my system became unstable and crashed !.
Fortunately, I have a multiple boot machine and I'm going to forget about the infamous Windows NT4 and stick with Windows NT5 (I'm beta testing it and it works ok).
This new O.S. has been behaving nicely, specially with those new features like being native PnP, plus a lot more functions like 'Device Manager', 'Hardware Wizard', etc. I really like it.
Thanks for your input.
Happy New Year !.
Efrain R Portales
First, I had the setup as PnP enabled because I have a PCI PnP Winmodem and it was working ok. But, with this setup, the SCSI CDROM was not being detected.
When I changed the setup to 'PnP disabled', I could install
the drivers and had the CD drive detected. However, with this setup the modem was not detected.
After doing some other changes, my system became unstable and crashed !.
Fortunately, I have a multiple boot machine and I'm going to forget about the infamous Windows NT4 and stick with Windows NT5 (I'm beta testing it and it works ok).
This new O.S. has been behaving nicely, specially with those new features like being native PnP, plus a lot more functions like 'Device Manager', 'Hardware Wizard', etc. I really like it.
Thanks for your input.
Happy New Year !.
Efrain R Portales