All drives except HDD are inaccessible

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XP Home, SP2, scanned as virus free.

Recently all my drives except the HDD have stopped working completely. One
day they were all fine and then they started not working for no apparent
reason. The floppy, DVD, CD\RW, USB card reader and USB pen are all there
and 'working properly' according to system manager. The DVD and CD and
floppy all show up in the BIOS. The DVD and CD drives are brand new.
Uninstalling them and leaving XP to find them makes no difference. They spin
but will not open, nor will they show contents using 'Explore', but the
drives do show up on 'My Computer'. They all have the latest drivers.
Obviously, I can't even run my XP setup disk to try to repair Windows either!

Any help would be much appreciated - I've reached the bottom of my rather
shallow well of knowledge!
 
oldun said:
XP Home, SP2, scanned as virus free.

Recently all my drives except the HDD have stopped working
completely. One day they were all fine and then they started not
working for no apparent reason. The floppy, DVD, CD\RW, USB card
reader and USB pen are all there and 'working properly' according to
system manager. The DVD and CD and floppy all show up in the BIOS.
The DVD and CD drives are brand new. Uninstalling them and leaving XP
to find them makes no difference. They spin but will not open, nor
will they show contents using 'Explore', but the drives do show up on
'My Computer'. They all have the latest drivers. Obviously, I can't
even run my XP setup disk to try to repair Windows either!

Any help would be much appreciated - I've reached the bottom of my
rather shallow well of knowledge!
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Have you tried safe mode?
 
Thanks for replying.
Tried Safe Mode. The floppy, CDRW and DVD drives all work fine. The USB
card reader is 'seen' and appears in Explorer, but does not read the card.
The USB pen is not even 'seen' and does not appear in Explorer.
 
Thanks for the suggestion Bob. My fault - I should have mentioned in my
first post that I had tried the MS KBs. I've removed all CD writing software
from my PC. I can't find anywhere in the KBs, or any other place on the web,
that covers the problem of all drives not being accessible except in Safe
Mode.
 
I have the exact same problem on my computer.

Hopefully someone will have a good answer for us both!


*XP Home, SP2, scanned as virus free.

Recently all my drives except the HDD have stopped workin
completely. One
day they were all fine and then they started not working for n
apparent
reason. The floppy, DVD, CD\RW, USB card reader and USB pen are al
there
and 'working properly' according to system manager. The DVD and C
and
floppy all show up in the BIOS. The DVD and CD drives are bran
new.
Uninstalling them and leaving XP to find them makes no difference.
They spin
but will not open, nor will they show contents using 'Explore', bu
the
drives do show up on 'My Computer'. They all have the lates
drivers.
Obviously, I can't even run my XP setup disk to try to repair Window
either!

Any help would be much appreciated - I've reached the bottom of m
rather
shallow well of knowledge!
Click to expand...


-
packin pasto
 
packin said:
*I have the exact same problem on my computer.

Hopefully someone will have a good answer for us both! *
Click to expand...
Had the same problem after applying updates from microsoft for XP, or
maybe after running Nero CD burner once.
I got the CD &CDR drives working by changing the secondary IDE
controller to "PIO mode only". It was a shot in the dark that
worked.
Of course, I cannot do that on the floppy, and it is still "incorrect
function - drive inaccessible". Any ideas ?
 
Hello rrk and packin pastor
My problem was resolved when I removed my Cd burner software. I had Nero, I
believe it was called In-CD, as well as Roxio. Try to remove them, as at
least one of them seems to conflict with XP Service pack 2 (That's when I
started having problems). If that helps, find another CD burner SW. Hope it
helps you!
Regards
 
Anybody find a solution to the floppy drive issue yet? And thanks for the
info on Nero and InCD!! At least I have part of my problem solved.
 
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