bad cd-drive?

[cheyenne1212]

I'm trying to fix an old dell laptop for a person, and I'm not getting anywhere with it.

Its a old Pentium 266 with 128 mb of ram. I put Windows 98 SE on it.

Now heres the problem. When I put a CD in the CD-ROM (D: Drive) and I go to the cd-rom to access the files it says D: is not accessible. I can view the properties, but can't open it up.

The CD-ROM drive is shown in the BIOS and I know it did work as thats how I installed windows on it. lol

Anyone have any ideas?

[SDK]

If you boot with a Win98 Boot disk with Cd-Rom Driver on the boot disk, can you go on the cd-rom?

You try multiple Cd-Rom? 4-5 miminum. (Old one, new one, CD-R, all kind)

[cheyenne1212]

Oh yeah, forgot about trying that.

I did try to get to the D: drive via DOS prompt but that didn't work.

I'll try different media types today and let you know if it worked.

[nihil]

Hi,

1. Try running a cleaning CD through it a few times.

2. I have seen problems where an old cd won't read the faster modern CDs.........do you know the CD drive specs, might be only 4x or 8x

Will it "see" a music CD, and does it still recognise the Win98 CD?

Good luck