John O Wilson wrote:
>
> Got a service call from a user with an older Packard Bell system.
> It was a plain Quad speed IDE drive that
> came with the system.  The drive would spin-up with a CD inside, and the
> drive was recognized by Windows, but they'd always get the "Drive Not
> Ready, Cancel or Retry" dialog box (as if there was no CD in the drive). I
> assumed the drive went bad and brought over an NEC 4x4 IDE CD-ROM changer
> drive that was just laying around. Made sure it was jumpered as master and
> hooked it up to the secondary IDE interface on the mobo., same as the old
> drive, but lo and behold, I would get the same error dialog box (Drive Not
> Ready) even with a CD in the drive.
>
> Anyone else had anything similar happen to them with an older Packard
> Bell system, Win98 and IDE CD-ROM drives?
>
> -JOWj.
>
> John Wilson


The first thing I would check would be a boot sector virus.  I had the
same thing happen with a Packard Bell and that was the problem.





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