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I recently installed a new motherboard. I copied the old hard drive to a new hard drive with Drive Copy. The CD-ROM however shows up in the BIOS and in DOS but it is missing in Win95. It does not have Win95 drivers on a diskette. It supposedly relies on PNP. Does anyone know how I convince Win95 that it is there and working?
[quote]Originally posted by curtcee:
<strong>I recently installed a new motherboard. I copied the old hard drive to a new hard drive with Drive Copy. The CD-ROM however shows up in the BIOS and in DOS but it is missing in Win95. It does not have Win95 drivers on a diskette. It supposedly relies on PNP. Does anyone know how I convince Win95 that it is there and working?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Did you use norton ghost?
You cannot just copy an os, you need a ghost program
If you used a ghosting program,
Have you checked for viruses with a dos scanner?
a lot of boot sector viruses can make your drives not detect, and they won't show up unless you scan in dos.
This may have happened if there was a boot sector virus on a floppy you used to ghost or boot with..
If that doesn't work..
Boot into safe mode and remove your cd-rom drivers, then reboot and let it redetect
I assume drive copy is like ghost?
New motherboard may have different chipset, so is everything okay in device manager - specifically -working hard disk controller?
And what version of 95?
I re-installed Win95 and now it does recognize the CD-ROM.
And yes, I guess Powerquest's Drive Copy is similar to Norton's Ghost. It is able to copy a hard drive entirely so you can boot and use the copy as you would the original. Why the CD-ROM disappeared, I don't know. But it's back now and everything else seems normal. As normal as Win95 gets anyway.
[quote]Originally posted by confus-ed:
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New motherboard may have different chipset
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Most likely the problem. Win95 doesn't like waking up on a different m/board. 98 handles it more gracefully.
Whenever I image a drive from another, then put it with a different mobo, I always boot first into Safe Mode, and delete the Enum key under HKLocal Machine, then restart and let it redetect everything. At least with Win9x, that's worked the best for me.
The wiping of the enum has worked well for me too - it saves a lot of hassle
I reinstall and bill :D
I really helps to have the win 95 cab files on the hard drive too when deleting the ENUM key.
I have seen too many 486->Pentium upgrades that did not like the switch from Standard IDE controller to PCI Bus master/Dual FIFO contolers