I posted this in the OT forum, but then I got to thinking; since it's a CD-ROM drive problem, and I can't play EU without the CD-ROM drive working, I might just get away with asking for help here 
If not, just delete it. No point moving it to OT cos it's already there.
Lesson number one. When keeping a windows startup disk to recover your hard drive if it gets corrupted, make
occasional checks to ensure that the startup disk is not also corrupt.
Anyway, I got around that problem by borrowing a friend's PC and running a startup disk from there. But she
only has Win95, and those startups don't work on Win98. But, being reasonably brainy, I managed to cobble
together enough of a working DOS disk to persuade what was left of my Windows to make a Win98 startup disk,
and I used THAT to re-install Win98.
So far so hoopy.
But, for some bizarre and inexplicable reason.... although I can re-install Win98 from the CD-ROM drive, when it's
installed it doesn't recognise the CD-ROM drive. It also can't find the right drivers for my hard drives or any of my
peripherals, and I can't install the correct drivers because they're all on CDs. So at the moment, I'm not so much
on Win98 as Win33 1/2.
Can anybody remember, or guess, or work out, how to persuade Windows that I do really have a CDROM
attached to the machine, now that it's forgotten how it installed itself? I've bodged the job by running MSCDEX in
my autoexec.bat, but although that makes the CD drive show up in windows explorer, and it'll show me what
files are on the CD, if I click on any of them it says "file not found." CD-ROM drive is not showing up in my device
manager, and if I run the Add Hardware wizard that's not finding it. There, I stop: I don't know enough techie
rubbish to think of any other solutions. Anybody got any ideas?
Boring technical specs:
Tiny shop-bought computer. (UK persons will know all about Tiny)
Pentium II 350MHz; 128Mb SDRAM; two hard drives, one 8Gb, one 12Gb added later by me; ATAPI CDROM drive
which operates from C:\realmode\oakcdrom.sys when it works properly
In my config.sys file appears the line "DEVICE=C:\REALMODE\OAKCDROM.SYS /D=MSCD00"
In autoexec.bat appears the line "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD00"
The CD drive works fine if I restart in MSDOS mode but win98 doesn't want to know about it.
If not, just delete it. No point moving it to OT cos it's already there.
Lesson number one. When keeping a windows startup disk to recover your hard drive if it gets corrupted, make
occasional checks to ensure that the startup disk is not also corrupt.
Anyway, I got around that problem by borrowing a friend's PC and running a startup disk from there. But she
only has Win95, and those startups don't work on Win98. But, being reasonably brainy, I managed to cobble
together enough of a working DOS disk to persuade what was left of my Windows to make a Win98 startup disk,
and I used THAT to re-install Win98.
So far so hoopy.
But, for some bizarre and inexplicable reason.... although I can re-install Win98 from the CD-ROM drive, when it's
installed it doesn't recognise the CD-ROM drive. It also can't find the right drivers for my hard drives or any of my
peripherals, and I can't install the correct drivers because they're all on CDs. So at the moment, I'm not so much
on Win98 as Win33 1/2.
Can anybody remember, or guess, or work out, how to persuade Windows that I do really have a CDROM
attached to the machine, now that it's forgotten how it installed itself? I've bodged the job by running MSCDEX in
my autoexec.bat, but although that makes the CD drive show up in windows explorer, and it'll show me what
files are on the CD, if I click on any of them it says "file not found." CD-ROM drive is not showing up in my device
manager, and if I run the Add Hardware wizard that's not finding it. There, I stop: I don't know enough techie
rubbish to think of any other solutions. Anybody got any ideas?
Boring technical specs:
Tiny shop-bought computer. (UK persons will know all about Tiny)
Pentium II 350MHz; 128Mb SDRAM; two hard drives, one 8Gb, one 12Gb added later by me; ATAPI CDROM drive
which operates from C:\realmode\oakcdrom.sys when it works properly
In my config.sys file appears the line "DEVICE=C:\REALMODE\OAKCDROM.SYS /D=MSCD00"
In autoexec.bat appears the line "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD00"
The CD drive works fine if I restart in MSDOS mode but win98 doesn't want to know about it.
