HELP, can't find my cd rom.
Monday, February 6, 2006 by Rychian | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Reply #2 Monday, February 6, 2006 6:24 PM
| HELP, can't find my cd rom. |
It's one of the devices located on your computer case (tower) usually the 1st from top to bottom.
j/kTry opening the case and make sure that the power and data ribbon are well attached to the CD Rom.
It happened to me once and I was going crazy thinking the Cd Rom was damaged but after I reconected the cables everything came back on list.
Follow Gary's instruction if the problem remains. Few can help you with PC problems as Gary can.
Reply #3 Monday, February 6, 2006 6:27 PM
| It's one of the devices located on your computer case (tower) usually the 1st from top to bottom. |
Reply #5 Monday, February 6, 2006 7:41 PM
Reply #6 Monday, February 6, 2006 8:41 PM
| I have been through my computer bios and have set it to boot from my cd rom drive |
While Gary (yraq) awaits your hardware stats, a couple questions:
1 - Did you set the CD-ROM to first boot device before formatting?
2 - Does your BIOS currently recognize the CD-ROM device?
3 - Does device manager show any unknown devices?
Reply #7 Monday, February 6, 2006 9:04 PM
| 3 - Does device manager show any unknown devices? |
....only if he looks on another computer.....
Reply #8 Monday, February 6, 2006 9:41 PM
| 3 - Does device manager show any unknown devices? |
Yes, if it's supposed to be a newly formatted drive there ain't gonna be a 'device manager'....
Reply #9 Monday, February 6, 2006 10:21 PM
| 3 - Does device manager show any unknown devices? |
Okay, one down, two to go. 
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 12:47 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 1:21 AM
| Its possible that when formatting your cdrom.sys or mscdex.exe file was deleted. these may be needed to run your cd drive. Possibly you can copy these from another computer, or extract them of the XP setup disk. |
You don't need those files to get your CD-ROM to boot a CD. All you need is a working CD-ROM drive and a bootable CD. And by the way everything gets deleted when you format.
Reply #12 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 6:15 AM
| your cdrom.sys or mscdex.exe file was deleted. |
Yes, those are Dos drivers for CD recognition by your OS....certainly not needed in a 'modern' BIOS supporting booting from CD....the BIOS pre-empts OS-calls such as Dos, etc....
Reply #13 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:32 AM
Reply #14 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:36 AM
| Boot from a W98 floppy, that will install drivers for a CD-ROM... |
That depends....not if the drive is formatted in NTFS...
Reply #15 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 8:50 AM
the system does "see" the cd rom drive, but can not read the boot up disk to install the drives needed, it seems the format removed the drives from dos. yes it was told to read from the cd rom first.I'm trying to do a fresh reload...if the cd rom cannot read the disk, obviously it wont load any needed drivers. like I mentioned earlier...it "see's" the drive...it seems it cant read the disk.is there a bios setting I may be overlooking???? again thanks for the help....Reply #16 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:15 AM
The format shouldn't have 'removed the drives'....not unless you damaged the MBR [Master Boot Record] of the drives....something that can be fixed via the XP CD.
'it can't read the disk'....you mean the cdrom cannot read the XP CD...to get it to auto-load?
If that's the case...the CD is possibly dirty/damaged [it's vital your OS CD is well-looked-after].
See if you can borrow another's to try....that'd be my next suggestion....
Reply #17 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:20 AM
I have had many a burned CD not be recognized by a CD-rom on boot that was recognized by the OS after boot.
Things to try to eliminate possabilities:
1) Different bootable CD on this PC (Ubuntu Live CD?)
2) Same CD on another PC
Jafo, if ine is booting from a Win98 floppy, the file system of the HD is irrelavent. Boot from that floppy, load the CD drivers into memory, run setup on the CD. Done. Right?
Reply #18 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:33 AM
| Jafo, if ine is booting from a Win98 floppy, the file system of the HD is irrelavent. Boot from that floppy, load the CD drivers into memory, run setup on the CD. Done. Right? |
Yes...but it'll take the XP CD to see the NTFS HD...as Win98 on its own won't...
Reply #19 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:43 AM
Reply #20 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:46 AM
OK....if the CDs are new/good condition....and the BIOS does support CD booting....then it looks like it's an issue with your CDRom drive itself.
Does it spinup at all...and at least try to read?
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Reply #1 Monday, February 6, 2006 6:14 PM