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Don't want to mess with this but it's a friend and so....

His cd rom went out so we installed another one but Win98 doesn't see it at all.

The original cd rom drawer would not stay shut.
This guy has dialup and does not go \"surfing\" or receive spam so I'd say viruses are out.

Any ideas? I have some other drives I could try also but haven't yet.

bad cable.

Is the bad data cable making the drawer not stay closed or do you mean it's why we're not seeing the new(used) drive we installed?

98 SE?

hard to tell. The drives bios might not have the data to communicate with anything earlier than XP. Go to a Goodwill and see if there is an older drive.

Is the drive a sata/IDE combo?

thewolfe wrote:Is the bad data cable making the drawer not stay closed or do you mean it's why we're not seeing the new(used) drive we installed?

both.

is it a newer burner? drivers? <-- win98SE

He bought a new drive but wouldn't fit in opening because of Gateway front so I have about 3 other older drives we can try.

\"sata/IDE combo\" not sure what that is.

It is probably still loading the old DOS real mode drivers for the old drive which are not compatible with the new drive. You have to stop it from loading the DOS drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat, then make sure the windows 32 bit protected mode drivers are not disabled. See: http://powerjoe.tripod.com/noide.html

thewolfe wrote: "sata/IDE combo" not sure what that is.

he is asking which connector does it have

I talk to my friend today and he installed the new cd rom and all is well.

Had to modify the case a bit.

Thanks for your posts.