Help! Lost my CD drives!

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#11

Author: Michael
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:26

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I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.

My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have
dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Michael

System:
Win98se
Primary master Seagate 20.5 G
primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10
Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G
secondary slave Sony 24x
Celeron 450
BX m/b
128 Mb RAM

Re: Help! Lost my CD drives!

#12

Author: Revhead
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00

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Check for anything untoward in your autoexec.bat/config.sys files... post em
up here if you like, provided they're not too huge of course :-)

Michael <no _spam@not.today.au> wrote in message
news:39f4e60e@pink.one.net.au...
> I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.
>
> My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have
> dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.

Re: Help! Lost my CD drives!

#14

Author: balok
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00

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Try going to control panel and deleting the devices from the Device manager
under System.  Then use Add hardware to put them back.

"Michael" <no _spam@not.today.au> wrote in message
news:39f4e60e@pink.one.net.au...
> I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.
>
> My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have
> dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
>
> Michael
>
> System:
> Win98se
> Primary master Seagate 20.5 G
> primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10
> Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G
> secondary slave Sony 24x
> Celeron 450
> BX m/b
> 128 Mb RAM
>
>
>

Re: Help! Lost my CD drives!

#15

Author: harry.fuller
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00

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Look in Device Manager for those yellow exclamations and for ticks in boxes
on the way. Put the drivers back with Add new hardware
Michael <no _spam@not.today.au> wrote in message
news:39f4e60e@pink.one.net.au...
> I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.
>
> My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have
> dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
>
> Michael
>
> System:
> Win98se
> Primary master Seagate 20.5 G
> primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10
> Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G
> secondary slave Sony 24x
> Celeron 450
> BX m/b
> 128 Mb RAM
>
>
>

Re: Help! Lost my CD drives!

#13

Author: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:02

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Michael <no _spam@not.today.au> wrote in
message news:39f4e60e@pink.one.net.au...

> I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.

> My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives
> have dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.

Good trick.

> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Probably best to try installing Win98SE over the current installation.
You shouldnt lose anything doing that but it would be best to backup
anything that you will slash your wrists if you lose first.

> System:
> Win98se
> Primary master Seagate 20.5 G
> primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10
> Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G
> secondary slave Sony 24x
> Celeron 450
> BX m/b
> 128 Mb RAM

Re: Help! Lost my CD drives!

#16

Author: Simon Harris
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:57

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this happened with me in W95 when new hard drive fitted ..fixed by
installing latest busmaster drivers ... info page on these drivers said they
are included in W98 .... therefore reinstall looks good option  good luck
Simon

"Michael" <no _spam@not.today.au> wrote in message
news:39f4e60e@pink.one.net.au...
> I unistalled a few programs and now all heck has broken loose on my puter.
>
> My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have
> dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
>
> Michael
>
> System:
> Win98se
> Primary master Seagate 20.5 G
> primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10
> Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G
> secondary slave Sony 24x
> Celeron 450
> BX m/b
> 128 Mb RAM
>
>
>

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