Thanks everyone who has offered advice,
I've found I can read data CDs fine if I start Win98 in command-line prompt
mode, in other words Win98 GUI is never started, sorta like Magic's idea
of using an emergency rescue disk. Unfortunately if I then fire up win98
it goes back to being identified as an audio CD-- and remains so even
after "Shut Down -> Restart in DOS mode" so Windoze is definitely the
culprit.
I checked for viruses using McAfee online scanner-- clean. I overwrote
the existing Win98 installation by reinstalling from the CD [being able to
read it as described above], that went fine but it had no affect.
Looking back I'm pretty certain the AOL 5 installation was the last disc I
read and I've always had my doubts about AOLs version of IE they use. I
assume AOL5 is using a modified version of IE5 yeah? Anyway I've only
got about 3-4 hours of my totally free AOL 24hour trial left and will unistall
it and if necessary reinstall Win98 again afterwards and hopefully things
will look brighter :-)
Thanks again,
PrinceGaz -- "if it harms none, do what you will"
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