Help needed badly with cdrom/drive

Ok this is a pretty ugly problem i got here. It all started when i installed a new game that created huge error problems(mainly it killled windows). I reformatted the drive windows was on(c) but i forgot to keep the drivers for my dvd/cdrom. when i tried to access my dvd/cdrom with bootdisk drivers they wouldn't work. i tried installing the dvd/cdrom drivers i got from the website but they didn't work either. (at this point i could only use disk drive and since i don't have windows on disk couldn't do anything). just today i have put in some old cdrom that i found hoping that the bootdisk drivers would work with it. it didn't. i then tried to install the cdrom drivers and did same thing. and throughout all of this somehow my cdrom drive(e) got turned into a virtual ramdrive. if anyone has had this ever happen or know how to fix it PLZ repost here


Mike

If you are using Win98SE or later, set the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM first and boot direct from the Operating System CD.

You must be using a 98 or me bootdisk, it creates a virual ramdrive and moves your cdrom drive back, so your cdrom will be f with the bootdisk.

i am using a 98bootdisk but there is no f drive. also when i attempt to boot from cdrom it has an error saying it can not detect it even though i have installed drivers for it. any more ideas?

also whenever i say start windows 98 with cdrom support it starts loading then just freezes up at the same point each time. no idea if that helps with anything

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Originally posted by Mich@el:
i am using a 98bootdisk but there is no f drive. also when i attempt to boot from cdrom it has an error saying it can not detect it even though i have installed drivers for it. any more ideas?

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If you are using the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM then it doesn't install drivers. If it is an original CD of the operating system and it is win98SE or later then it will boot from the CD-ROM before even attempting to boot from FDD or HDD if you have the CD-ROM as the first in the Boot Sequence

what i ment was when we do change it from bios (like cdrom, a, something) it says error can not find cdrom. no idea why this happens because the cd is in it, it is plugged in, and BIOS does find it.

(hehe if it were as easy as you think it is i would have had it fixed long lnog ago)

and new update, going to try and setup a laptop connected to comp which has a cdrom. maybe can do a file transfer or shared cdrom drive. we will see

Then if the drivers on the bootdisk are not working and you cannot boot from the CD-ROM itself then it points to the actual drive being faulty.

If you can, make a Win98 bootdisk from another machine & try that.

Ok we have tested the boot disk on the laptop and it works great. We are wondering could it be some error with the motherboard? it has been giving us some problems before and it could be doing so now. and we are pretty sure the cdrom drive works fine.

What CD-ROM is it?

the first one i used is a BTC DVD/cdrom 8x and the one im using now(found in closest) is a 16x digital

Try switching IDE channels for it, i.e. Slave it to Primary if on Secondary & vice versa.

still nothing happening

Have you tried accessing your cdrom as the E: drive?

If there's only 1 hard drive it would get C:, Ramdrive would get D:, so your cdrom would end up as E:.

Before wasting any more time....check the drives in another system or try a known good drive from another system in this one.

Why is there so much bad advice given to this person? His Mainboard is dead. he should accept the fact and get a new one. After talking to him in chat, it's either that, or he has crap drivers hooked up to it.... It's either the OS ( Which I doubt since it's Win 98 ) or it's the mainboard ( Which seems likely. ) Get yourself a new board, damnit.

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