CDR-H94A - (huh?)

[Lloyd]

What the?
I have a up-graded 586. I just wiped cleen the hard drive, to re-install Win95. Then to my (utter) regret, the computer can not find my CD-Rom. Well, after going bald by pulling all my hair out. I looked up the #s and found out i need a CDR-H94A driver. Which i (cheerfully) downloaded. Then I noticed that this (Sanyo CD-ROM) is plugged into a sound card (Golden Sound) by Toptek. I even down-loaded the driver's for it also, but they are in Windows format. Ahhhh! any 95 boot disk i have doesn't recognize my CD..
I'm not too familiar with DOS, but i do know "dir" and a few other basic commands. Does any one out there have any suggestions?

[braybk]

Not being too familiar with DOS, you'll want to use an easy utility to get that drive up and running. I highly recommend CD-ROM God, which you can find <a href="http://www.gankish.net/rumblesoft/downloads.htm">here.</a>

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[Student^2]

Whilst CD-ROM God is the best bet, if it doesn't work you may have to initialise that soundcard before you can read the drive. Quickest way to check - see if the CD will plug in on the cable with your hard drive. If it does, leave it there, and the generic Win9X boot disk should see it. If it won't, don't bother with CD God. Find - and successfully load - the driver for that sound card. Then you should be able to edit the win boot disk and go from there.

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Time is a great teacher,
but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

[braybk]

I believe the latest version of CD-ROM God includes many of the soundcard initialization drivers too, but I could be wrong.

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-Geek used to be a four letter word. Now its a six-figure one.

[Lloyd]

I have Loaded the drivers for that sound card, and the driver for the CD-Rom but i don't really know how to edit the win-boot disk so they all can run together. If all i have to do is just copy one or two files over, i can. I know the basics of DOS, like coping files over from one drive to another drive. I even been told about editing the AUTOEXEC (or something like that) and the CONFIG but i just don't know how..

Originally posted by Student^2:
Whilst CD-ROM God is the best bet, if it doesn't work you may have to initialise that soundcard before you can read the drive. Quickest way to check - see if the CD will plug in on the cable with your hard drive. If it does, leave it there, and the generic Win9X boot disk should see it. If it won't, don't bother with CD God. Find - and successfully load - the driver for that sound card. Then you should be able to edit the win boot disk and go from there.

[techs]

I am not sure of your problem. Attache the cdr to an ide cable, install windows, install the sound card drivers, making sure the system recognizes the ide port on the sound card, then just attach the cdrom to the sound card. i have done this dozens of times. once windows loads it rems out the dos cd driver and uses the windows virtual driver, in fact if you don't rem out the cd drivers, you can have dos compatiblility mode problems.

[This message has been edited by techs (edited November 17, 2000).]