would reinstall of windows98 help this?

[geezy1]

my computer wont recognise my cd rom drive or cd player or dvd player ---it says d drive not ready----i wonder if something is off in my bios? or what -----any help is appreciated---john g

 

[geezy1]

ps i have the widows cd but no floppy

 

[wolluf]

Bit more history/detail would help us help you.

Specifically - when did problem start, any hardware/software changes/major crashes, viruses between working not working? (system spec?). Have you run a virus scan? And anything else which might help.

 

[edfair]

Anything in the mangler showing problems? Particularly the IDE controller stuff.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[cdogg]

Right-click My Computer on your desktop and go to Properties. On the Performance tab, does it tell you whether any drives are using "MS-DOS compatibility"?

If so, that's your problem. Go here for some suggestions:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/msdos-compatibility.html[/url]

MS Article 130179


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[AndyHo]

Running setup shouldn't do any harm. Get a boot disk from another 98 machine (control panel,add remove programs, startup disk). See if the startup disk detects the CD rom drive. If it does its a definite 98 problem.

However from experience I tend to go for the BIOS first. (reset defaults) Then open it up and check the connections.

Andy Holden