On 22 May 99, at 22:31, Bob Stout wrote:

> I have inherited an upgraded 486 with 12 meg ram and 1 gig HD and I cant
> get the CD to work. It had a virus so I formated the hd and tried to reload
> win95 but it can't see the cd player, I tried to connect it as a slave but
> to no avail the thing wouldn't start at all.. I've tried the bios and all it
> does is look for a slave drive and wont see the CD at all..
>
> The CD ROM is connected to to the sound card.. It's a creative CD rom and
> a sound blaster 16 board..

  This makes it about 98% certain that this is not an IDE/EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
drive; its 40-pin interface is using one of several proprietary formats often
supported on sound cards from that era.  I believe you can find drivers for
these from CL's web site -- you'll need the model number of the drive.

  [You'll need to make a "DOS" boot disk, and have it load the DOS driver and
MSCDEX.EXE, so that DOS can recognize the drive so you can load Win 9x.  You
may need to also download a 32-bit driver for Windows to use, in case its not
among the drivers included on your Windows CD.


David G

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