I switched my BIOS to boot from CD (Windows XP) first and then HD
second....when I rebooted it skipped past the two normal prompts/messages to
boot from CD and probably booted straight up from the HD...basically
behaving like there's either no CD ROM at all, or, it could not find a
bootable disk.

The BIOS still correctly identified the device and it still shows up, but,
still says there's no disk in it.

Thanks again for all of your responses :-)

Paul


> I'm not sure that going to a command prompt window within WinXP and not
> being able to access the CD-ROM really rules out this being a software
> problem.
>
> Since you don't have a floppy drive, you might make sure that you have
> your
> CD set to be the first boot device in the BIOS and see if you can boot up
> from a bootable CD, such as your WinXP disk.
>
> John Sproule
>
> ----------
> From: "Paul E. Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] My CD Fails to detect the CD in it's tray
>
>
>> I have no bootable Win98 CD, nor do I have a 3.5" drive (I never bothered
>> to
>> install one when I rebuilt our computers during the last upgrade cycle).
>> The best I can do is check from command mode.
>>
>> The CD is shown as available and working in the hardware configuration.
>>
>> The CD is properly detected by the BIOS during startup.
>>
>> In Explorer, it shows available, but with no CD in it.  When I click to
>> explore the CD, I get a popup asking for me to insert a CD into the
>> drive.
>
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