You failed to mention if Win 95 still sees the CDROM despite the error
message. Is it still there?

IF YES, then there's nothing to worry about... Win95 is already loading the
proper drivers. Just remove the MSCDEX line in your autoexec.bat if you
won't be using it in MSDOS only mode.

If NO, you mentioned that you just added a hard drive. It's possible that
your hard drive is already partitioned to at least Drive E, and you have not
LASTDRIVE line in config.sys, thus no more drive letters for your hard
drive.

Try adding "LASTDRIVE=Z" in your config.sys for this problem.

Hmm, come to think of it, I might've misunderstood your problem. In any
case, keep the above tips and see if it helps.








-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Perry <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 8:03 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Creepy CD Rom Drivers


>Heres one for 50 points.
>I have just partitioned and formatted a 512mb hard drive ready for Win95
OSR2.
>I copied across the CD rom drivers to the hard drive so that I could get
>the CD rom going.
>And then came the problem.....after rebooting I get a message quoting the
>CDrom device line from autoexec.bat and a statement that there are no
>device drivers loaded for the cdrom.
>The Cd rom is made by Creative. It is connected to the sound card.What can
>I do next? The installation of the device drivers goes fine everytime
>except when I go to boot up and I get the annoying message.
>
>Dave
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