|it will access the CDROM in DOS.
| John  White
|
So we know that the hardware (drive, cabling, jumpering) is OK.

|||there is nothing listed in the device manager for CD-ROM's
||| John  White
|||
Every DEVICE needs a DEVICE DRIVER 
cache of http://www.karlsforums.com/faq/faq_devicedriver.htm
for each operating system under which it is used.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1196793963
When installed, those show up in Device Manager.
A device that is physically connected but doesn't have a valid driver
should initiate a pop-up when the OS is being started.

|It will just not recognize it when i'm in windows.
|
An obvious indication that your Windows 98 device driver for that device
is borked or missing completely.

Find the disk that came with the hardware.
If anything for this device did exist in Device Manager,
you would remove the old device driver there before reinstalling the driver.
If you aren't getting a pop-up at Startup, you go to
Control Panel; Add New Hardware .


:Even Netscape was easy to recover
:
While Mozilla completely scrapped the spaghetti code codebase they got from N$,
they DID retain the *support file structure* that Net$cape used.
There are NO significant differences between the 2.

:from a crashed system.
:
Here they come again:
THE 3 INDISPENSABLE RULES OF COMPUTING
BACK UP.  BACK UP.  BACK UP.

Do it while your devices and OS are all working properly.
USB thumbdrives have made this a snap.

:Most files and data are relatively easy to recover except for Mozilla.
:
The significant stuff for Gecko-based browsers is in your **profile** at
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt .

Repeating:  Cache files produced by the Mozilla family of browsers
were NEVER meant to be "archived" (nor were N$'s).
These are *temp* files, and like all such files are meant to be flushed often.

The structure I wish browsers had is a Visited-Often cache.
That way you could flush the main browser cache
and your most-often-visited sites would still load at light speed every time.


~I was able to export my address book and my bookmarks,
~but cookies and passwords are impossible.
~
There are a great number of Gecko-centric information sources out there.
A Windows 98 forum is NOT the place to be seeking those answers. 
cache of http://gemal.dk/mozilla/files.html
++cookies.txt++passwords+somenumber.s+signons.txt

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