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Article #222Re: doesn't read CD-ROM Help Please
From: Adrian
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:00
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Chances are that you have a master boot record. Check your system properties under performance, if you have drive compatibility mode - you got a virus. Try booting off a clean disk (not made from your 'puter) with fdisk and at the prompt type fdisk /mbr. Try a virus scanner too. Hope this helped - Adrian Bryan Schultz wrote: > I start up win 95 without a cd in my cd-rom. I click on my comp. and it > says that there is no cd in (this is correct) I then stick a cd in the > cd-rom and I hit refresh. It still says I have no cd in... So I click on > the drive and it shows that there is nothing in the drive! It is blank! If > you know how to fix this problem I would appriciate the help. I have a sony > 8x cd-rom and I am running win 95. > Thanks for reading, > jace@feist.com
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