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Strange issue CD-ROM driver not loading when booting from new HDD

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First post, by cyberluke

Posted on 2024-03-26, 15:57

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On 486 machine:

When booting from floppy drive, it detects cd-rom drive properly.

When booting from Seagate 80GB drive that is formatted as 8GB, it won't detect cd-rom drive in both Windows 98 and DOS (using VIDECDD.SYS).

NSSI shows CD-Rom, so BIOS detects it.

Any clues why this happens? When I boot from floppy, or boot from second 4GB drive, cd-rom is present even this Seagate 80GB is also present as slave. Only when booting from Seagate 80GB, cd-rom is not detected.

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