CD Rom working funny

[DJW]

I replaced the CDROM in my laptop and reinstalled windows 98SE. During
the plug and play hardware part of the install it asked to put the
windows 98 dick in which it was. It asked for files it then could not
find I tried different paths i.e. d:\win98 etc. But still could not
find them so I skipped them. Now whenever I put a CD in the names are
truncated and end in a tilde (~). Teac the CD-ROM maker says that no
driver is needed and that windows 98 will provide one that will work.
Also when I had the windows 98 install disk in I notice the icon stays
with the window's icon on it And when I put in a CD-R disk I made and
double click on it's icon it tries to run auto start which is not on
that CD. I assume from the auto start it is trying to run is the one
on the windows installer CD. And lastly I see no CD player in device
manager in the system control panel? I have found a couple drivers
from driver guide dot com that say they are for that model. If I
install one would I need to first uninstall the one there now? And if
I don't see a CD in device manager how do I do that? Do you think I
can repair this from where I am or should I do a clean install again
and find the files online or on another win 98se machine and bring
them over as asked for them
How can the CD-ROM even be working to the degree it is when it's not
in device manager?

 

[Franc Zabkar]

I replaced the CDROM in my laptop and reinstalled windows 98SE. During
the plug and play hardware part of the install it asked to put the
windows 98 dick in which it was. It asked for files it then could not
find I tried different paths i.e. d:\win98 etc. But still could not
find them so I skipped them. Now whenever I put a CD in the names are
truncated and end in a tilde (~). Teac the CD-ROM maker says that no
driver is needed and that windows 98 will provide one that will work.
Also when I had the windows 98 install disk in I notice the icon stays
with the window's icon on it And when I put in a CD-R disk I made and
double click on it's icon it tries to run auto start which is not on
that CD. I assume from the auto start it is trying to run is the one
on the windows installer CD. And lastly I see no CD player in device
manager in the system control panel? I have found a couple drivers
from driver guide dot com that say they are for that model. If I
install one would I need to first uninstall the one there now? And if
I don't see a CD in device manager how do I do that? Do you think I
can repair this from where I am or should I do a clean install again
and find the files online or on another win 98se machine and bring
them over as asked for them
How can the CD-ROM even be working to the degree it is when it's not
in device manager?

It sounds like you have a CD-ROM driver in your config.sys file and
mscdex.exe in your autoexec.bat. This probably means that your CD-ROM
is operating in MS-DOS compatibility mode which in turn explains why
you are limited to 8.3 filenames.

Go to Start > Run and type "sysedit". Add a REM to the beginning of
each of the relevant lines in the above files. Then search your
registry and delete any reference to NOIDE.

These MSKB articles may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151911
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130179/en-us

- Franc Zabkar