I have recently created a second partition on my hard drive. One partition I have Windows 98 in, and in the second partition I have DOS 6.22 and windows 3.11 I have a generic dvd player and a HP CdWriter. Everything worked fine until I created the second partition. Now when I boot windows 98 sometimes it shows the cd-drives and sometimes they are not there at all. It's like windows 98 is not detecting them half the time. I don't know what I did wrong. Please help me. Thanks.

I believe this is a coincidence rather than "as a result of". You might try loading the file mscdex.exe into the root C: and then loading the cd rom drivers for ea. CD player into dos. If you dont know how to do it...just post & someone will tell you.... This is a strange one...could be a corrupt Win98 file ...If you know how to run "File Checker" in the System Information Tools section, that would tell you if a Win file is messed up and needs reinstalling.

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Some system configurations can actually boot TOO FAST?!?!? At least too fast for some components to be recognized reliably. To compensate for this, some BIOS setup programs have a setting to force a delay. Try looking through your settings for something like that, note the original setting, and increase it a little to see if that helps. Does this problem happen equally with cold and warm boots (restarts), or just warm? I would not advise loading any DOS real-mode driver unless you play older DOS games, because Windows includes and uses its own protected-mode driver much more efficiently. Another option -- if you have a friend with a higher-quality brand-name drive, see if you get the same behavior with it. Last thought - I had a Hitachi DVD drive and the mfr recommended it be installed as the primary slave, rather than on the secondary channel.