CD-rom owner, but not CD-rom software owner 1

[Guest_imported]

I decided to crack open my 95 Packard Bell Computer that has been collecting dust ever since I yelled foul language at it & got a new computer. I want to give it to my sister, but I first have to fix it. I basically deleted everything, formated the Hard drive, put my recovery disk loaded all the important stuff off it. Being a novice in computer technician stuff, it took me a good hour to figure out that the cd Player dosn't work. So I went into setup & it said it wasn't installed. Well, since it used to work & I never touched the hardware, I figure it has to be a software problem. I did a bunch of searching on the net on how to install a cd-rom & they all say to place the disk in to get the software necessary for installation. Well I searched around my house & found no software. So in simple words, I need to install a cd rom, but I have no software to do it. Does anyone have any advice besides useing it for target practice before deer hunting season starts.

 

[edfair]

Software for the cd rom is probably built in the system. Are you sure you followed the restore instructions completely?
Usually on an integrated system, you change the boot order to use the built in cd rom capability and it reloads everything. But there are other ways they might do it.
You might try windrivers.com. You would be looking for Oak cd drivers or acer cd drivers. Both seem to work on most ATAPI cds.
Packard Hells are different beasts and things that work on industry standard machines are useless on them mostly. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[cid1]

what type of operating system do you have on your current computer? if it is windows 98 or me you can go into my computer, control panel, addremove programs, and then click on the startup disk tab. create a new startup disk using this utility and then boot the other machine up using this new disk. If you have win98 or winme it should prompt you to start your pc with cd-rom support. then you can load windows or anything else. keep in mind that windows 95 does not have this option on thier startup disk so be sure to create one with win98or higher.

good luck