I am using build 5584 - I had meant to include that info.
I would say for sure that the CD-Rom drivers did not install. My original install was from the CD for Windows 98 First Edition; when I reinstalled, I did it from an image. I upgraded that to Win98SE by copying the files to the hard drive for the install to a Win98SE folder (I used to do it that way back in the day as well, so the drivers were always there if Windows needed them later). I did the install from scratch twice with the same results.
I did try the workaround you mentioned before as I found that when I searched here. There are no CD-ROM devices present in Device Manager, and so no PRL-Virtual CD-ROM. I tried the new hardware wizard, but as far as I could tell it did not find a CR-ROM device.
Under hard disk controllers I found only "Primary IDE controller (single fifo)" and "Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller". I changed the Standard controller from 'default" setup to "both channels", shut down, and assigned the CD-ROM in the virtual machine setup to 1:0. Windows did not like that, and told me it would disable 32 bit drivers for the primary channel upon booting up. So I changed that back.
Keep in mind that I still have the Windows 98SE files on the Windows hard drive, so if there is a way to install the drivers from that I could; I also still have the Parallels Tools in a folder on the C: drive as well.
I removed "Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller", and had to reinstall the Primary channel driver, which now has an exclamation point by it in "Device Manager", indicating that "this device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed." (Someone should have told Microsoft that the word 'either' is for two choices, not three or more). Any drivers I have been able to point it to have been the same.
Last edited: Feb 15, 2008