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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-04 03:09 PM
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15. Just put it in, and turn on your PC.
By default it will attempt to initialize a whole bunch of different DOS-based CD-ROM drivers. I've never had a CD drive that it wasn't able to detect.

Watch for messages like "1 drive found" or whatever.

At the end, it should tell you what drive letter it's on. (Likely D: or E:.)

Put a CD in it, then switch to that drive letter, do a "dir" and see if it can read the CD.

If so, it's a Win2K problem. If not, it's a hardware problem.
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