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Article #6825Re: Win95 Can't See CDRom
From: Leng Kaing
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00
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Leng Kaing (leng@cougar.vut.edu.au) wrote: : I'm not sure what CD-ROM I've got. But anyhow I've got a similar : problem. I've reinstalled Win95 many many times and have also added : hardware, configured system from control panel and rebooted endless : times. Problem is still the same. DOS can see the CD-ROM but not : win95. Win95 can see CD-ROM immediately after re-install. But suffers : amnesia once PC is shutdown. Any subsequent reboot fails to shake up : Win95's memory. : I hope someone can help me too. : Leng. For those of you interested, I've discovered the solution a while back but couldn't remember the newsgroup that I posted to. Hence the delay. So the solution for me was to make config.sys read-only. What happens is that each time win95 shuts down, it will try to update config.sys with an invalid CD-ROM configuration. So I manually updated the config.sys, changed attribute to read-only and reboot. Now win95 admits defeat and acknowledges that I do in fact have a CD-ROM. Rightly so! Leng. -- Leng Kaing DBA - Directory Technology P/L Email: lkaing@ventnds1.telecom.com.au Ph: +61-3-9892-9081 Fax: +61-3-9892-9344 WWW: http://www.vut.edu.au/voug
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100a73,c5bc7cf4ab59a107 X-Google-Attributes: gid100a73,public From: leng@cougar.vut.edu.au (Leng Kaing) Subject: Re: Win95 Can't See CDRom Date: 1996/04/13 Message-ID: <4kngc7$m3h@cougar.vut.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 147285344 references: <31447377.44762172@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4ioq5q$6mp@cougar.vut.edu.au> organization: Victoria University of Technology newsgroups: aus.computers.cdrom