Client upgraded a Presario notebook to Win98 at one point and then CD drive no longer worked. Using a Windows boot disk created from another system, the cd drivers failed to load. Found out the Presario 1200 series CD drive does not work with microsoft drivers or other generic drivers -- only the driver on the recovery CDs work. The drive does not appear in the BIOS. No IDE/ATAPI drivers appear in the device manager. Have attempted to install several drivers (not from the recovery CD) to no avail. I finally was able to locate the recovery CD's but since the computer doesn't recognize the drive, I can't recover the system back to it's original state. What drivers do I need to pull from the recovery CD in order to restore the CD drive? Is there a way to make a boot disk from the recovery CDs? I would welcome any suggestions about how to get around this catch-22.
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