Hi!

Equipment : Sony VAio P3 notebook, Windows 98 SE

Situation: Restored original operating system with Sony's CD's when I bought the machine second hand (on eBay, where else?)

What happens: The CDROM drive obviously works, because that's how I installed the OS! However, it does not show up as a lettered drive in the "My Computer" window.

It shows up OK in the BIOS setup as the secondary IDE channel. It shows up in the Registry with drive "G" assigned. The CD-ROM drive never shows up in Device Manager, although the Sony Proprietary CD-ROM driver was manually installed in Device Manager.

So, in summary, there's a working CD-ROM drive, but Windows doesn't seem to want to map it.

Does anyone have any fancy ideas, like a Registry modification, or some other way to get this thing to map the drive?

Thanks!!!