Win98 detect my cdrw as floppy

[Eirwan]

I have recently setup a pentium 2 with win98 for an office work computer. Everthing works smoothly when i format and install the windows. When i get to the windows, my cdrw was not at 'My Computer'. When check the Device Manager the Disk drivers was there but it says 'Generic Nes Floppy Disk'. It also put its current drive letter assigment 'A' althought i had a floopy disk.

[confus-ed]

Hi Eirwan & welcome to wd forums :).

Well ... that's definately a new one to me, I think your most likely answer though would be that the bios in your machine needs updating & that what's happening is that your current bios mis-identified what's connected to the windows 98 setup routine.

Have you tried deleting the existing references to it in windows in device manager & letting it re-detect ? - that might maybe help too.

[Platypus]

In your BIOS settings, do you have the CD slot set to "AUTO" or "CD-ROM"? If so, try changing the setting to "NONE". In this case you might also need to implement confus-ed's suggestion of removing the CD-ROM in Device Manager to allow Windows to re-detect it.

A few older BIOS did seem to mis-identify CD-ROMs, possibly a bug in the code to mount a bootable CD as a virtual A: drive may cause this to be reported to Windows as permanantly present...

Leaving the drive identification to Windows rather than the BIOS can resolve some problems, likewise for LS-120 (Edit: I meant internal ZIP) drives in some cases. If this does affect the problem, the BIOS update suggestion is a possible answer too.