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okay i finished finally installing windows nt and now there is no cd rom drive now on my computer for some reason. when i click the my computer icon i get the the hardrives but no cd rom drive. when the system boots it displays it detects cd rom drive and on the first boot of windows nt the computer showed cd rom drive but after that it does not display it. how do you get it to display it

for some reason when the ata 66 drivers are install for motherboard it does not let cd rom appear but when i unistall it works.going to see if i can get it to work with those drivers any suggestions.

Just a wild guess but what service pack for NT do you have installed ?

6a service pack

Some ideas:

- After you installed the Service Pack, in the process of installing drivers or changing network settings, did Windows ask for the NT Installation CD? If so, you MUST re-install the service pack. This is a problem in NT they fixed in 2K and XP. Anytime you're asked to insert the NT CD, Windows is installing old non-updated system files from it. You must ALWAYS then re-install the Service pack afterwards to update the newly installed system files.

- Is this a seperate ATA66 controller (do you have seperate EIDE ports)? If so, you should connect the CD to the EIDE ports NOT the ATA66 controller. Many ATA66 controllers don't support CDs, or are fussy about how they are connected.

- Is the CD sharing a ribbon with a hard drive? If so, move it to a ribbon by itself.

- Always make the CD a slave. Some controllers don't like to see a CD as a master, even if it's the only device on a port.


Hope this helps...

i just did not install the ata66 drivers for my onboard two ide ports. yes one i connected to cd rom ide2 and hardrive connected to ide 1