Open your box, unplug the new CDRW from it's power plug and from the data cable.  Reset your old CDR as a solo drive or master on that channel per your owner's manual.  Then go to device manager and uninstall the CDRW under CD's.  Do a restart so that the changes take effect, then put your recovery CD in the original CDR. You can reinstall the CDRW after you've done the recovery.

>I have an IBM Aptiva 2153-E3U computer, K6-350, 128megRam, 8gHD, Win98SE.  I want to use the included Product Recovery CD to return the system to it's original configuration.  The recovery instructions have you inserting the Product Recovery CD into the CDR drive while the system is running, shutting down, and then restarting the machine.  However, when I do that nothing happens because, after I purchased the machine, I installed a CDRW drive and it is set as the master drive while the original CDR drive is set as the slave (when booting, the CDRW master is accessed but the CDR slave is not).  Now I could place the Product Recovery CD in the CDRW drive and I am sure it would be recognized.  But I am afraid that, because the CDRW drive was installed at a later date, I might be in a heap of trouble because the CDRW drive was not in the origi
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>nal configuration.
>What are my options?  Thank you in advance for any assistance.
>Ted Saselli/
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