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D E - 19 May 2004 08:18 GMT

On my first IDE, a 60GB hard drive (master) and a cd-rom drive (secondary).
On my seciond IDE, a 10GB hard drive(master) and a cd-rom drive (secondary).

THe second hard drive will be used for linux, i used magic-boot to
initialize it as such.

THe problem is, only one cd-rom is recognized. THe other one, I know for a
fact, works, yet I am unable to read info from it, and WIN98 recognizes it
as not disc in drive.

I am thinking that this huge hard drive is messing things up. Also, the
second cd-rom is possible "in between" the two hard drives, so maybe is
missed b/c the drive letters are skipped when re=assigned?

how do i make both cd-roms work? thanks!

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Ron Badour - 19 May 2004 13:37 GMT

1. Do you have Tweak UI installed? If so, go to My Computer tab and put
marks in all drives.

2. Check for a lastdrive statement in the config.sys file and if it exists,
make sure it reads: lastdrive=z

3. Run regedit.exe and open it to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

In the right pane, look for a last drive statement and make sure it reads
"Z"

4. Control panel, system, performance tab: is there any comment about
MSDos compatibility mode?

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> On my first IDE, a 60GB hard drive (master) and a cd-rom drive (secondary).
> On my seciond IDE, a 10GB hard drive(master) and a cd-rom drive (secondary).
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>
> how do i make both cd-roms work? thanks!

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D E - 19 May 2004 16:32 GMT

> 1. Do you have Tweak UI installed? If so, go to My Computer tab and put
> marks in all drives.

DONE

> 2. Check for a lastdrive statement in the config.sys file and if it exists,
> make sure it reads: lastdrive=z

DONE

> 3. Run regedit.exe and open it to this key:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
>
> In the right pane, look for a last drive statement and make sure it reads
> "Z"

DOES

> 4. Control panel, system, performance tab: is there any comment about
> MSDos compatibility mode?

NO

It still doesn't work :-/ MY cd-rom shows up on explorer and when you right
click and select "eject" it ejects, yet when you insert a cd-rom, it blinks
at a regular rate and just hangs... i know for a fact that everything is
connected right and that the cd-rom drive works...

> > On my first IDE, a 60GB hard drive (master) and a cd-rom drive
> (secondary).
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> >
> > how do i make both cd-roms work? thanks!

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Ron Badour - 19 May 2004 16:47 GMT

Did you go into the BIOS and make sure all the drives are properly
recognized? Are the jumper switches set correctly? Did you try switching
the two CDRom drives around so they slaved to the other hard drives?

These are less likely causes but may help the overall computer operation
even if they don't fix the drive problem:

Spyware/scumware/adware are causing numerous system problems. I recommend
you download and use the following programs and consider removing everything
these programs identify. Be aware that there are frequent updates to these
programs and you need to check for them before every use.

AdAware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download
link near the bottom)

Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

I would also run a full scan with an up to date anti virus program.

Finally, a program running in the background may be at fault and while this
is even less likely, I'd check it out anyway:

How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192926

If you solve it, please let us know what it was.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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> > 1. Do you have Tweak UI installed? If so, go to My Computer tab and put
> > marks in all drives.
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> > > how do i make both cd-roms work? thanks!

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Corey - 26 May 2004 19:16 GMT

Have you tried removing and reinstalling the driver and if you have "plug
and play " it should do it automaticly

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