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For some reason my windows 95 lost my cd-rom. It is not even listed on my device manager? I have plug and play and it still will not pick it up. Any help will be appreciated Thank you Mike

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Do you know how to work in the bios menu? If no then press DEL @ startup till you get your bios menu then click AUTO DETECT DRIVES, try to detect your CD-rom drive if it does not pick it up make sure the cables inside are connected ok. If yes then does it detect in there? If no then open up your system and make sure all cables are connected.


On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 9:01 am, Mike Tilley wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware :

>For some reason my windows 95 lost my cd-rom. It is not even listed on my device
>manager? I have plug and play and it still will not pick it up. Any help will be
>appreciated Thank you
> Mike
>

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i had a similar problem on an old computer years ago. i would do all this work to get my cdrom back, and a week later it was totally gone again. my problem... some obscure virus! i suggest you get a virus scanner and check it out just in case (i fixed the problem with mcafee) my mother still has that old computer and it never happened again.


On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 9:01 am, Mike Tilley wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware :

>For some reason my windows 95 lost my cd-rom. It is not even listed on my device
>manager? I have plug and play and it still will not pick it up. Any help will be
>appreciated Thank you
> Mike
>

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I am trying to install windows 98 over 95, but it won't except it. It keeps asking for win95 disk, but I don't have it. Is there a way to get around that? Is reformatting an option? If so, how do I go about it.


On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 9:01 am, Mike Tilley wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware :

>For some reason my windows 95 lost my cd-rom. It is not even listed on my device
>manager? I have plug and play and it still will not pick it up. Any help will be
>appreciated Thank you
> Mike
>

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Hi, I recently updated a Compaq Presario 2200 that had Win95 originally and it wouldn't accept the win98 cd for the drivers... if the prob is similar (driver installs,etc.)... use your win98se cd and extract ALL .cab files and other zipped files to a folder and burn them to a cd. (to extract use "expand" command in dos or right click in windows | Expand or USE WINRAR or WINZIP) Worked for me! Chris


On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 1:52 am, Becky McGuire wrote:
>I am trying to install windows 98 over 95, but it won't except it. It keeps asking
>for win95 disk, but I don't have it. Is there a way to get around that? Is reformatting
>an option? If so, how do I go about it.
>
>

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