William A Council <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good Day One and All,
>
>         I am working on a system that
>                 a) has a virus
>                 b) does not recognize the CD-Rom Drive
>
> System Specs IBM 486 with 32 MB running Windows 95
>
> I have placed CD-Rom Drivers using write-protected diskettes in the
> Windows/command directory and added the corresponding line to the
> Config.sys. I see this load when the system boots. However, once inside
> windows 95, it only shows the A and C Drives. Another thing of note is
> that the Windows Taskbar only shows the clock and the Start Button. My
> thought is that Windows could be corrupted on fundamental level. Psion
> Software was installed on the system by the client and sometimes it's
> icon appears right next to the clock. (This has happened once after I
> have removed the program from the Startup.

Do you also have the mscdex line on autoexec.bat? For DOS mode, it takes two
drivers, the CDROM driver in config.sys, and mscdex in autoexec.bat (which is
what maps a drive letter).

However, to get native support in Win95, you shouldn't need the DOS mode
drivers. If it is standard IDE based CDROM, then Win95 should detect it. You
might try "Add New Hardware" and have it automatically detect new hardware or,
if that doesn't work, manually selecting a CDROM device.

If the CDROM is a proprietary interface (like connected to a sound card), then
you will need the Win95 drivers for it, see if you can find the manufacturers
web site.


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