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315833 2005-01-19 12:40:00 I run win98se. While everything is working the CD drive (normally d:) has gone missing from win98. It does not appear in the device manager. It can be seen by the bios and if I boot off a Win98SE Startup floppy disk (with CD support enabled) it works and I can access the CD drive under DOS.

It shouldn't need drivers in autoexec.bat/config.sys, and before the problem there weren't any.

So it appears it is a Win98 issue. Any idea how to get it back without a complete install.

I have run thelatest Norton virus definition and Spybot - but nothing turns up.

Thanks Chris
chrisz (6917)
315834 2005-01-19 16:14:00 I don't know if this will help as I use XP, but I had the same thing happen in the last few days, and it was due to unistalling the "Intel application accelarator" program that is mean't to increase drive performance.
I found after uninstalling the program that both my CD and DVD drive were missing only in windows (showed up fine in the Bios and boot process), as soon as I reinstalled the Intel program they returned.

I hope this help's

Dave
Davoid (6918)
315835 2005-01-19 20:06:00 If you are using Tweak UI, make sure that it is not hidden in there.
Bye
Peter H (220)
315836 2005-01-20 03:59:00 Thanks Dave, the only thing I installed was IE6.0. Unstaled it to try and fix but no good. Thanks for responding. Chris chrisz (6917)
315837 2005-01-20 04:01:00 Thanks Peter - will try using Tweak UI to see if it can fix the problem - but didn't have it installed. chrisz (6917)
315838 2005-01-20 13:05:00 Hi there maybe your aspi layer is gone or just missing try down loading the drivers from here....www.adaptec.com



this is the one to get


Windows ASPI drivers version v4.71.2
Rawcuss1 (6727)
315839 2005-01-20 21:39:00 if the aspi dosn't fix it then reinstall your motherboard drivers. tweak'e (69)
315840 2005-01-24 01:47:00 Thanks - reloading the drivers worked.

Cheers Chrisz
chrisz (6917)
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