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Hello,
          I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm having a problem on my internet p.c. where my p.c. won't recognize my c.d. rom anymore. I had a dual boot system and for some reason over the past week things have been getting weird on my sysytem and all of a sudden I can't open windows explorer and look at the contents of a c.d. I looked in the device manager and it says the device is working fine. The weird thing was I have an external cdrw drive hooked up and it won't recognize that either. I tried uninstalling software and nothing seems to help . I tried formating one of the partitions and starting over but even then the cd rom won't be recognized. I use the startup floppy, load the drivers for the cd rom and when it's time to type setup it can't find the c.d. 
            Can anyone help me please? Some advice? I'm desperate....Thanks!!

              --Roger


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Litepipe wrote:

>          I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm having a problem on my 
>internet p.c. where my p.c. won't recognize my c.d. rom anymore. I had a 
>dual boot system and for some reason over the past week things have been 
>getting weird on my sysytem and all of a sudden I can't open windows 
>explorer and look at the contents of a c.d. 

Sounds like an OS problem to me. 

If so you can use the System File Checker  to see if a file is corrupt or
missing and restore it. 
In Win98SE you find it under Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System
Information. There is probably something in Win2K/XP that will  so a
similar job of looking for a file that went south.

That's where I would start anyway.

Regards,
Murray

> ** Original Message follows... 

>    From: "litepipe" <litepipe@...>
> Subject: HELP!! Windows won't recognize my cd rom anymore
> 
>   Hello,
>           I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm having a problem on my internet p.c. where my p.c. won't recognize my c.d. rom anymore. I had a dual boot system and for some reason over the past week things have been getting weird on my sysytem and all of a sudden I can't open windows explorer and look at the contents of a c.d. I looked in the device manager and it says the device is working fine. The weird thing was I have an external cdrw drive hooked up and it won't recognize that either. I tried uninstalling software and nothing seems to help . I tried formating one of the partitions and starting over but even then the cd rom won't be recognized. I use the startup floppy, load the drivers for the cd rom and when it's time to type setup it can't find the c.d. 
>             Can anyone help me please? Some advice? I'm desperate....Thanks!!
> 

Check your system for the "Klez" virus. Symantec has a separate program you can download to get rid of it - doesn't always work.

Mars

If both your "dual boot" OS installations are the same version of 
Windows, and you have the installation CD, you might want to switch 
on the PC when that CD in the drive, in the hope that at least the 
BIOS can see it (some bioses defulat to no booting form CD, if that's 
true for yours, see if you can change that via the BIOS settings). 
Choose the "boot from CD" option when it comes up, and then choose to 
install some very minor OS application or utility that isn't already 
on the HD, using that great big tickbox menu. 
If you can do that, the OS setup program will /hopefully/ repair 
whatever was wrong with your OS bootup files on the HD at the same 
time, and the next time you autoboot into the OS, the CDROM /might/ 
magically be back again (it worked for me, anyway).
Sometimes those system files seem to get damaged when you have an 
abnormal shutdown, doing some very minor OS "install" thing can often 
put them back.


Standard warnings apply, do a system backup of everything before you 
start playing around like this ... running a disk integrity check 
doesn't hurt ... and check your cables in case one has worked a bit 
loose!

===NB:=== There are some serious issues concerned with dual-booting 
between two /different/ versions of Windows on the same hard drive. 
If that's what you are doing you probably need to give us some more 
details about how your system is set up, and be much more careful, 
because trying to reinstall or repair the "old" version in a dual 
boot setup can often completely destroy the "newer" OS and/or its 
files.

Erk
 

--- In logic-ot@y..., "litepipe" <litepipe@e...> wrote:
>           I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm having a problem on 
my internet p.c. where my p.c. won't recognize my c.d. rom anymore. I 
had a dual boot system and for some reason over the past week things 
have been getting weird on my sysytem and all of a sudden I can't 
open windows explorer and look at the contents of a c.d.