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Re: CD Rom no longer exists

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From: Martin
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:00
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If it worked once it should always work!!  Maybe something really simple
like the cable has come out
of the back of the drive - or m/board.  These things happen!!!!!!!  Does the
light come on the cd drive when the machine is swithced on.  If it does then
bios finds it, and the power supply works.




Marcel Stoessel wrote in message <7chkg7$6m1$1@sibyl.sunrise.ch>...
>What's nicer than coming back from hospital from urological surgery,
wanting
>to install newly-BOUGHT Publisher 98 and finding out that your beloved 450
>MHZ Pentium with Windows 98 pre-installed (no disc of Win 98), who always
>worked perfectly, simply does not feature the device D: anymore. I am sure
>there must be an easy solution to it, so before I f... it up, maybe someone
>can tell me how to solve this problem. I am sure it is not a hardware prob.
>The driver must be on the Hard Disk somewhere, so please don't ask me for
>the non-existing Win 98 disc.
>
>Please include a CC: to mstoes@spectraweb.ch
>Thanks.
>
>Marcel
>______________________________________________
>Marcel Stoessel, student/journalist, writing from Geneva
>Home: http://www.spectraweb.ch/~mstoes
>
>
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From: "Martin" <martin@2smart.swinternet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Rom no longer exists
Date: 1999/03/15
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