can not see cd-rom

[bombaykid]

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif can not see CD rom
I have very old computer, it was working good. I have two floppy drives and 3 hard drives and a CD drivr.
I wanted to give this computer to charity so I formated c: drive aand now I can not re load windows 95.

I down loaded 95 boot disk from bootdisk.com and trying to boot but computer does not see cdrom.

I get following messege;

wearnes technology CD-Rom CDD110 device driver, rev 105
Device name :BANANA
divice driver not found "Banana"
No valid CDRom device driver selected

A:\>


I can not see "D" which is my 2nd h/d and I can not see my CD-rom drive.

Computer is old and runing at 66mh speed and I haave only 24 MB of ram.

The coputer was working good till I formated c: drive.

What should I do, I have window95 operating systems CD.

Please help.

[tetonbob]

Hi bombaykid

download a windows98 bootdisk - it has CD ROM drivers on it, and you will be able to go forward from there. It will work just fine for getting your install going. Win95 bootdisks do not offer CD ROM driver support.

[bombaykid]

TetonBob
Thank you, I down loaded Window 98 startup and started the computer.
I got following massages:
Device driver not found:"mscd001"
No valid cdrom device driver selected
PCI read configuration fail.

My computre is very old aand the CDrom was manufacture by "Wearness technology, CDROM CDD110 Device driver, rev 105.

I down loaded the device driver for this Wearness Tech and changed the config.sys with this line
"device:cd6.sys /D:mscd001"

CD6.Sys is the device driver for that wearness CDROM

After doing all that I still get the same problems "device driver not found: "mscd001"
No valid CDROM device driver selected

Question: How do I check if my CD Rom is Good? I see the green light when I load the cd.
The processor on this computer is 80486dx2 (out dated now)

[Alfons]

Post the contents of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT from the boot disk & we can see if all the "loose ends" are covered. It sounds like the device name isn't covered properly between the two files.

[bombaykid]

Dear Alfons:
Here is Config.sys and autoexec.bat

Config.sys
[menu]
menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support.
menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support.
menuitem=HELP, View the Help file.
menudefault=CD,30
menucolor=7,0
[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
REM device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=cd6.sys /D:mscd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
rem device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=cd7.sys /d:mscd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001
[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
[HELP]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
[COMMON]
files=10
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048
lastdrive=z

Autoexec.bat
@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
cls
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
set temp=c:\
set tmp=c:\
path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;%CDROM%:\
copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL
set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NUL
copy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL
:ERROR
IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT
echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
echo.
pause
GOTO ERROR
:EXT
%RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL
echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.
echo.
IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
IF "%config%"=="HELP" GOTO HELP
LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM%
echo.
GOTO QUIT
:HELP
cls
call help.bat
echo Your computer will now restart and the startup menu will appear.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
restart.com
GOTO QUIT
:QUIT
echo To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.
echo.
rem clean up environment variables
set CDROM=
set LglDrv=


Thank you for the response

[tetonbob]

someone else can probably tell you better than I, but I think you should try to pare down the CD section of your config.sys I did some Googling, and found that with Win95 and your particular CD drive things can get confused if too many driver lines are in the config.sys. But first, I'd take the REM off the device=oakcdrom.sys line. the oakcdrom.sys is well known generic driver

[bombaykid]

Removed REm from both drivers device=oakcdrom.sys and device=btcdrom.sys and tried again to boot. No result, same problem. I know that the cd6.sys and cd7.sys are the driver for my cd. I tried with just two of those drivers by reming all other drivers but still it does not work.
Do you think my CDrom is busted?
It was working and functioning ok before I formated c: Drive.
How do I test to see if CDROM is any good?

[smurfy]

If you open up the box, can you see if the IDE ribbon cable from the back of the CD Rom drive connects to the motherboard or to a controller board or a sound card.

[bombaykid]

Yes, IDE ribbon cable is connected to sound card, there is a red,black and green wire connected from CD Rom to sound card, and power cord is also plug in to CD Rom.

When I load the cd in to cd ROM the green light comes on. that mean power is on.