Hi,
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)

A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.

I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
bought a replacement.
It wont seem to install correctly either.
Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
SM-348)

In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.

So i'm kinda guessing i'm doing something wrong when trying to install
it. I've been on the Samsung website trying to download anything I can
but it still wont recognise it.

Does anyone have any Ideas?

Thanks,

Niall.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7f2290d2-a7cf-42ba-936a-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)
>
> A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.
>
> I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
> bought a replacement.
> It wont seem to install correctly either.
> Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
> SM-348)
>
> In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.
>
> So i'm kinda guessing i'm doing something wrong when trying to install
> it. I've been on the Samsung website trying to download anything I can
> but it still wont recognise it.
>
> Does anyone have any Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niall.

Have you partitioned and formatted it yet?

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On Nov 30, 6:23 pm, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote:
> <niall_hea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:7f2290d2-a7cf-42ba-936a-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)
>
> > A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.
>
> > I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
> > bought a replacement.
> > It wont seem to install correctly either.
> > Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
> > SM-348)
>
> > In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.
>
> > So i'm kinda guessing i'm doing something wrong when trying to install
> > it. I've been on the Samsung website trying to download anything I can
> > but it still wont recognise it.
>
> > Does anyone have any Ideas?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Niall.
>
> Have you partitioned and formatted it yet?
>
> --
>
> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
> Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/
>
> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

The OP is not talking about a hadr drive. They are asking about a DVD/
CD drive, which does not require partitioning before use.

Your problem lies with the Upper and Lower Filters

Follow the fix in the below MS KB and ignore the heading for the error messages.

After the fix you should be able to see and work your CD\DVD drive

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:7f2290d2-a7cf-42ba-936a-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)
>
> A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.
>
> I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
> bought a replacement.
> It wont seem to install correctly either.
> Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
> SM-348)
>
> In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.
>
> So i'm kinda guessing i'm doing something wrong when trying to install
> it. I've been on the Samsung website trying to download anything I can
> but it still wont recognise it.
>
> Does anyone have any Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niall.

"smlunatick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7f418b00-6bf4-433e-895f-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Nov 30, 6:23 pm, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote:
>> <niall_hea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:7f2290d2-a7cf-42ba-936a-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)
>>
>> > A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.
>>
>> > I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
>> > bought a replacement.
>> > It wont seem to install correctly either.
>> > Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
>> > SM-348)
>>
>> > In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.
>>
>> > So i'm kinda guessing i'm doing something wrong when trying to install
>> > it. I've been on the Samsung website trying to download anything I can
>> > but it still wont recognise it.
>>
>> > Does anyone have any Ideas?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>>
>> > Niall.
>>
>> Have you partitioned and formatted it yet?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
>> Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/
>>
>> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> The OP is not talking about a hadr drive. They are asking about a DVD/
> CD drive, which does not require partitioning before use.

JEEEZ, that's pulling a real Homer. Thanks for the slap upside whatever, hopefully
I didn't do a post swap.


--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

Thanks for the suggestions.
I tried that registry thing,
Still no luck though.

I cant even reinstall, or recover windows. Apparently Dell has a
system recovery tool (CTRL + F11) but that wont even work.

Any more ideas?
Thanks,

Niall.