Ever since I did a complete reinstall of my system, neither my DVDrom or CDRW have worked properly. Of course they will read disks when I use the mscdex line in autoexec but when it comes to installing CDRW software it doesn't recognise my CDRW because both drives are just generic cdroms (they dont even appear in device driver). This morning I decided to reinstall both drives. So I removed both drives, rebooted in safe mode, took out all references to the drives (which had appeared in device manager), shut down, installed the CDRW on its own as Master, rebooted. It's detected during startup but when win98 comes on, nothing! Add new hardware doesn't work. I read almost every post I could in this forum and tried any advice I thought applied. My Regedit doesn't have a NOIDE, so I couldn't delete that. Any BIOS setting that I'm unsure of is set to auto, it's really getting to me! The drives worked fine up until this morning. The DVD is just a standard device and the CDRW is a Philips PCRW404K. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me.