cd roms wrongly recognised as audio CDs

[magedera]

Hello there this is my first post

I am using an IBM Thinkpad 1412, 160 MB of RAM, Pentium II (yes I know that is puny)!:blush:

The computer has just gone through a reinstall of Win 98 from the original disks and MS office 2000 has been installed. It has 2.51 GB free space. The hard drive is divided as follows a C: drive for program files and a D: drive for documents.

The problem is that although MS Office was successfully installed with CD roms I tried then to install the drivers for my LAN card. Then I find that when using Windows Explorer to look at my files the E: changes to AUDIO CD (E:) when there is a CD-ROM in it and the Audio Rack audio CD playback program opens automatically.

I really hope someone has some advice on this ongoing repeating problem disabling a much needed computer.

[Isxek]

Have you tried checking the CD out on another PC? Since you were able to install other programs through CDs, the LAN driver CD might already be bad.

[magedera]

Hi Isxek!


I have just tried and the disk does work in another machine. I have been told that this problem with non-recognition of the CD ROM is a 'bug' in Win 98.

Any further advice?

best,

M.