I dont know why but my sims deluxe edition game wont play. the d drive is not responding or insert different disk. I have tried changing the drives around but nothing works. It wont play anything else either. I have windows 98. HELP ME PLEASE!!!

Hello, and Welcome to DAL.

I'm assuming your D: drive is a CDROM?

If the above is true, first determine if it's hardware or software which is causing the problem. Boot with an EBD (Emergency Boot Disk) for WIN98. Choose "With CDROM support". Near the end of the boot process the system will tell you what device letter is being assigned to your CDROM.

When you get to the A:\> prompt, insert a data (not music) CD (factory original, not a burnt/copied CD) into your drive, type in dir x: (where x is the device letter assigned to the CDROM at the end of the boot). If you do get a directory listing, this indicates that the hardware is OK, and the problem lies within the O/S.

If you don't have an EBD, you can grab this one from my webspace.

The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.

Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the bios. http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/23.html

NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)

If the hardware is OK, the problem lies within the O/S. Try removing the drive through Device Manager, restarting, and letting the Hardware Wizard re-establish the hardware ID, drivers, resources, etc. If the Hardware Wizard doesn't start/find the drive on the restart, run Add New Hardware through Control Panel.

Post back with your results, clarifying what you have done.

Originally Posted by Dan Penny

Hello, and Welcome to DAL.

I'm assuming your D: drive is a CDROM?

If the above is true, first determine if it's hardware or software which is causing the problem. Boot with an EBD (Emergency Boot Disk) for WIN98. Choose "With CDROM support". Near the end of the boot process the system will tell you what device letter is being assigned to your CDROM.

When you get to the A:\> prompt, insert a data (not music) CD (factory original, not a burnt/copied CD) into your drive, type in dir x: (where x is the device letter assigned to the CDROM at the end of the boot). If you do get a directory listing, this indicates that the hardware is OK, and the problem lies within the O/S.

If you don't have an EBD, you can grab this one from my webspace.

The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.

Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the bios. http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/23.html

NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)

If the hardware is OK, the problem lies within the O/S. Try removing the drive through Device Manager, restarting, and letting the Hardware Wizard re-establish the hardware ID, drivers, resources, etc. If the Hardware Wizard doesn't start/find the drive on the restart, run Add New Hardware through Control Panel.

Post back with your results, clarifying what you have done.

thanks for replying. i'll try it

my d drive cdrom my e is coputer

im sorry e is dvd
they are both not working

i put in the disk the disk. it takes 60 seconds toread it but doesn't respond

Did you obtain, and make the bootdisk, and is it (in itself) working? Does it boot the machine with CDROM support, but the cd/dvd are not assigned device letters?

When you cold boot the machine, are the CDROM and the DVD listed in the POST (Power On Self Test)? (The second screen you see if the diagnostics screens aren't masked by a boot screen.)

cd is d dvd is e

well now its saying wrong cd

for the game