First question would be: Is the CD-ROM drive connected to a sound card as
the Secondary IDE controller or is it on the primary mobo controller with
the hard drive.

If it is connected to the sound card, you will need the drivers to enable
the controller on the sound card. These would come from the manufacturer of
the sound card. Also if connected to the sound card, it may not be ATAPI
compliant and need proprietary drivers depending on how old it really is.

Secondly, if you connected the drive to the same controller as the hard
drive, is the hard drive set up as a master and the CD-ROM as a slave.

Daniel Wysocki
Twin*.*Star Computers
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Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 7:41 AM
Subject: Installing CD-ROM Driver


>        I have an old Pentium 100 that just experienced a hard drive crash.
I
>replaced the old drive with another one that I scavenged out of another old
>box.
>
>        However, I am having a problem loading Windows back on.  It has an
older
>Matsushita CD-ROM drive (4X I think) and I can't get it to load up with the
>generic CD driver that comes on the Windows Boot disk.
>
>        How do I get a CD driver loaded for an older drive like this so
that I can
>do the regular boot/Windows CD installation?
>
>        Doug White
>
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