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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (171920)	7/16/2003 12:00:33 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580364

Your CD drive doesn't show up in "my computer"? Even if empty it should show up. It sounds like you are having problems with your CD drive or with your connection to the CD drive (Probably IDE but could be SCSI, USB, Firewire or other). Edit - But then you say that your system does play music CDs. When you remove the CD and have nothing in the drive does it show up in my computer? When you put in a program CD and then don't play the game (or exit it if it runs automatically) do you see the CD drive in my computer? What OS are you using? DOS.......Windows 98. I think I know what's wrong. I use Willow Pond/Media Rack to play my music. So I just pulled it up to see what happens when I try to play one of my CDs. Media Rack was showing an error message...NO CD in Drive.... so I clicked 'play' and another error message came up saying that the MS-DOS CD extensions are not installed. I thought huh? That didn't make sense. So then I went to my Desktop and clicked on the "shortcut to the CD ROM disc" and I got another error message saying that the folder had been removed. Then I remembered that two weeks ago, I had gone to a web site where I managed to pick up what I think must be worm; the kind that attaches to your browser and then every time you reboot your PC, an icon from the web site shows up on your Desktop. They don't do anything but they are annoying and a b*tch to get rid of. I was in a hurry and I think I must have deleted some of my CD stuff when I deleted the other stuff on my Desktop. Brilliant move!! Do you think the MS-DOS CD extensions would have been loaded when I loaded 98 or would it have been a separate Disc? Any clues? TIA. ted