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Dale
June 21st 04, 06:11 PM
Hi there,

Here's the story:

I bought a homemade athlon 1.8 ghz computer that came with
an adaptec hard drive controller with a maxtor 120gb hard
drive with windows 2000 professional. I attached a 15gb
hard drive from my old sony vaio computer that has win98
on it. I made the win98 hd a slave to the win2k drive and
everything worked fine.

I got a trios device so i can boot up my win98 drive
separately, as I could not access certain programs on
there. Now, i my cd-rom and dvd drives do not show up
under "my computer." also, when I click on the "a" floppy
drive, I get an error message saying it's inaccessible.

any ideas?

thanks in advance,

sincerely,

Dale shin

Jeff Richards
June 22nd 04, 03:59 AM
Are you booting Windows from the disk that you moved from the Sony? That
operating system would have a completely different set of device drivers,
and it is surprising that this arrangement works at all.

Boot to safe mode and remove all copies of the relevant device drivers.
Re-boot and allow Windows to isntall the correct drivers for the devices.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Dale" > wrote in message
...
> Hi there,
>
> Here's the story:
>
> I bought a homemade athlon 1.8 ghz computer that came with
> an adaptec hard drive controller with a maxtor 120gb hard
> drive with windows 2000 professional. I attached a 15gb
> hard drive from my old sony vaio computer that has win98
> on it. I made the win98 hd a slave to the win2k drive and
> everything worked fine.
>
> I got a trios device so i can boot up my win98 drive
> separately, as I could not access certain programs on
> there. Now, i my cd-rom and dvd drives do not show up
> under "my computer." also, when I click on the "a" floppy
> drive, I get an error message saying it's inaccessible.

Dale
June 24th 04, 04:34 PM
Thanks for the reply.

I removed all the drivers and rebooted and windows ran
through some installation thing. the floppy works but the
cd-rom drives still do not come up.

any other suggestions?

thanks,
dale

>-----Original Message-----
>Are you booting Windows from the disk that you moved from
the Sony? That
>operating system would have a completely different set of
device drivers,
>and it is surprising that this arrangement works at all.
>
>Boot to safe mode and remove all copies of the relevant
device drivers.
>Re-boot and allow Windows to isntall the correct drivers
for the devices.
>--
>Jeff Richards
>MS MVP (DTS)
>"Dale" > wrote in
message
...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Here's the story:
>>
>> I bought a homemade athlon 1.8 ghz computer that came
with
>> an adaptec hard drive controller with a maxtor 120gb
hard
>> drive with windows 2000 professional. I attached a 15gb
>> hard drive from my old sony vaio computer that has win98
>> on it. I made the win98 hd a slave to the win2k drive
and
>> everything worked fine.
>>
>> I got a trios device so i can boot up my win98 drive
>> separately, as I could not access certain programs on
>> there. Now, i my cd-rom and dvd drives do not show up
>> under "my computer." also, when I click on the "a"
floppy
>> drive, I get an error message saying it's inaccessible.
>
>
>.
>

Jeff Richards
June 25th 04, 03:34 AM
Was a CD-ROM device installed? If so, look at the device driver details and
make sure the driver is correct for the hardware. If it isn't, update the
driver with the correct one. If no driver was installed, use the add
hardware procedure to add the correct drivers for your particular CD-ROM
drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Dale" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I removed all the drivers and rebooted and windows ran
> through some installation thing. the floppy works but the
> cd-rom drives still do not come up.