[Q]: Where oh where has my CDROM gone?

[Michael T. Peterson]

I needed to reinstall WinNT 3.51 over an existing WinNT 4.0 (Beta)
installation. So, I loaded the April '96 subscription CDROM and initiated the
installation. I answered all of the questions and dutifully made the 3
boot/config diskettes. When asked, I rebooted with the NT boot diskette in
drive A: and began the guts of the installation.

The installation procedure successfully detected my NCR PCI 53c810 SCSI
adapter, but not my Panasonic CDROM (the one that comes with a Soundblaster
kit). So, at the appropriate time, I selected the Panasonic driver from the
list of drivers not automatically searched and proceeded with the installation.

Things went fine until it was about to complete when the installation failed
with a message to the effect that...

"Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the
MSDOS portion of setup."

Whereupon I was instructed to hit F3 to exit. I can boot into WinNT 3.51 (it
used to be WinNT 4.0) and everything works OK except I can no longer see the
CDROM drive?

Here are my config details:

disk 0 C: MSDOS 6.0/FAT/316 MB
disk 1 ? Unknown/unknown/2049 MB
disk 2 D: Data/NTFS/2047 MB

NB: Disk 1 is formatted for Linux and the boot partition on C: has the LILO
boot loader installed. This continues to work fine. Over the past year I have
been successfully able to boot into Win 3.11, Win95, WinNT 3.51, WinNT 4.0, and
a bunch of Linux versions.

Can someone recommend a strategy for enabling the CDROM drive? As of now, I
am unable to "reinstall" anything because it requires a CDROM drive.

Cheers,

/mtp

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