I have just upgraded a friend's W95 machine to Win98 SE. I used the CD ROM drive to conduct the installation and it proceeded OK. At some point, late in the installation, I was requested to insert the Win98 CD. However it had lost recognition of the CD ROM drive! There had been NO hardware modifications whatsoever. I cancelled the request and the installation completed - apparantly successfully. I was able to run programs already installed on the machine (Word etc), and able to dial up the internet which worked OK. But the machine would not recognise the CD ROM drive, despite having just loaded Win 98 from it!!

The computer is a fairly old HP Vectra. I looked in the BIOS but couldn't find an obvious fault - besides which, just installing an operating system would not affect the BIOS settings.

Fortunately my friend does not use the CD ROM drive much, but I would like to solve the problem (for his daughter!!)

Any ideas?

Dave Skye