This happened to me a couple of years ago with an old computer I built out a couple of computers in the dump. Nothing in this computer ever quite worked right, but one day I get this windows 95 blue screen of death, which essentially says that windows has detected an evil 16 bit driver which must be eradicated and stomped out of existance.
Windows then proceeds to delete my CD-ROM driver.
Now, the real problem, is that The only way in which to install a new cdrom driver, is from the windows 95 cdrom.
Now, my question is: what concievable rational explanation is there for windows to do this?
by the way, my cdrom driver was a 32 bit driver which had managed to coexist with windows relatively peacefully for about six months before this happened.