My two CD drives are found by the Bios but not by Windows.

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Using Win98SE.

My 2 CD's show in the grid displayed by the Bios before dos starts,
and there is a "Multimedia Device", I think it is called, listed in
the table that follows that, also before DOS starts. The lights on
each one blink on during the testing at computer-start-up.

But after Windows starts, there is no trace of either CD drive. I
don't remember if they ever showed up in Windows, but now they don't.

All this hardware is from my friend, who gave me an old mother board,
a harddrive**, a RD-W CD drive and another CD that plays DVD's. But
not all from the same computer.

In Device Manager, there were a lot of yellow question marks, for
hardware he didn't give me, I assumed. So I deleted the lines with
yellow ? marks.

Either right after that, or maybe before that (my apologies), the CD's
stopped working in Windows. Also, in regular mode, there are no
devices listed in Device Manager, but there is a long list of entries
in Safe Mode. That seem strange.

Please, what should I do?


PS. I thought even fancy CD's should still perform basic functions
without the software that accompanies them. (Is that so??) But I
replaced one with a basic CD only. There was no change.





**I am only using the HD for testing, until I clone my current HD,
which I want to do the same day I start using the new computer.

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Apparently you are using a hard drive that was in another system, and you are trying
to use the Windows installation already existing on that system. That is the
probable cause of all the problems. You can *sometimes* use a hard drive with
Windows already installed from another system, if you remove ALL the devices in
device manager from Safe Mode, then restart in normal mode and let Windows start
detecting the new hardware. Does *not* always work. Another method that does not
always work is to open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) from Safe Mode, and delete
the entire ENUM key, at HKLM\Enum; then start in normal mode and let Windows detect.

Often the only cure is to format and install Windows fresh, so it can detect the
hardware correctly.

If you plan to clone your hard drive from another system, to put in there, you will
have to do much the same first, with that one.
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"meirman" <meirman@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Using Win98SE.
>
> My 2 CD's show in the grid displayed by the Bios before dos starts,
> and there is a "Multimedia Device", I think it is called, listed in
> the table that follows that, also before DOS starts. The lights on
> each one blink on during the testing at computer-start-up.
>
> But after Windows starts, there is no trace of either CD drive. I
> don't remember if they ever showed up in Windows, but now they don't.
>
> All this hardware is from my friend, who gave me an old mother board,
> a harddrive**, a RD-W CD drive and another CD that plays DVD's. But
> not all from the same computer.
>
> In Device Manager, there were a lot of yellow question marks, for
> hardware he didn't give me, I assumed. So I deleted the lines with
> yellow ? marks.
>
> Either right after that, or maybe before that (my apologies), the CD's
> stopped working in Windows. Also, in regular mode, there are no
> devices listed in Device Manager, but there is a long list of entries
> in Safe Mode. That seem strange.
>
> Please, what should I do?
>
>
> PS. I thought even fancy CD's should still perform basic functions
> without the software that accompanies them. (Is that so??) But I
> replaced one with a basic CD only. There was no change.
>
>
>
>
>
> **I am only using the HD for testing, until I clone my current HD,
> which I want to do the same day I start using the new computer.
>
> Meirman
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> If emailing, please let me know whether
> or not you are posting the same letter.
> Change domain to erols.com, if necessary.

 

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In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion on Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:08:27
-0400 "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> posted:

>Apparently you are using a hard drive that was in another system, and you are trying
>to use the Windows installation already existing on that system. That is the
>probable cause of all the problems. You can *sometimes* use a hard drive with
>Windows already installed from another system, if you remove ALL the devices in
>device manager from Safe Mode, then restart in normal mode and let Windows start
>detecting the new hardware. Does *not* always work. Another method that does not
>always work is to open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) from Safe Mode, and delete
>the entire ENUM key, at HKLM\Enum; then start in normal mode and let Windows detect.
>
>Often the only cure is to format and install Windows fresh, so it can detect the
>hardware correctly.
>
>If you plan to clone your hard drive from another system, to put in there, you will
>have to do much the same first, with that one.

Thanks Ron and Glen, I will try all these things. Have a lot of work
for work though, so it will take some time to know the answer.

P&M&M

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