You say the boot sequence can't detect the cd drive. You haven't said enough for me to guess at what type of boot sequence you have, but normally a bios displays a cdrom firmware message, just below the memory size ok message, that tells the make of the cdrom and the ide channel it is on. Some bios do not display this information, but list the cdrom under the detected hard disk in a big text box right before the message 'windows loading'. If your familiar with these messages, and your not seeing them now, then there are only a few possible problems. 1. The drive is shot. sorry. 2. The drive doesn't have power. Try switching to a different 12volt power cable. 3. the drive data cable is not/not correctly attached. All of these would cause the bios to make a perfunctory check of the ide channel and then boot without the drive. However, if the bios seems to hang for a period, its expecting something on the secondary channel and not finding it. Check cmos settings for anything concerning hard disks on the secondary channel. Check the jumpers on the cdrom drive. Some bios will pause for only a moment with a drive set to slave but no master present, others will not detect the drive. If you get past this and the cdrom does not appear in windows, clear any mention of the drive from config.sys and autoexec.bat. Use sysedit from the start, run, dialog box to access these files. If you find that there were dos drivers loading, you'll have to reboot. Then you may have to run 'detect new hardware' wizard from control panel to get the 32bit drivers to load the first time. -----Original Message----- From: Olushola [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 10:01 PM Hi. The boot sequence can't detect the CD Drive. It is on the secondary master. The BIOS secondary is set to auto detect. I changed it to CDROM but when the boot sequence came to the secondary master, it said that ATAPI is not comaptible or something like that. So I changed it back to auto. The OS is 95 and I'm able to access my programs it just that the CDROM is not present. I think I may have erased some files accidently during a cleanup process. PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>