CD Drive Issues

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Upon closer inspection of My Computer one day (I'm running XP Home
w/SP1), I noticed that my CD drives had completely disappeared. I have
no idea what's going on, but I first attempted to see if the BIOS
detected them. The BIOS only sees one of the drives, a Samsung DVD
drive, and the name was strange, and looked corrupted. I changed the
jumpers on the two drives, but that was an utter failure, as well as
change the IDE cable altogether, but to no avail. I installed two
different drives to see if anything was different, but it's the same if
I install a different drive. After putting the two drives back, I
noticed that one of them now shows up in Windows Explorer, but I can't
access the drive, regardless of whether or not there is a disc in the
drive. And the drive is nowhere to be seen in Device Manager.
 
Hi,

See if this helps:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Under section 8 - Problems - there is a link to a patch that often resolves
the problem of the drives missing in Windows Explorer. I suspect though,
that if they are not being seen properly in the system BIOS then you may
have motherboard damage.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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