SP2 and Optical Drives

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Max

I have a combi Drive and a DVD Writer in my PC once Sp2 has been installed
I lose one of the drives, if I swap the IDE cables around I still only get
the one drive. Ive swapped the cables and both are fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Max
 
I've seen that before .. weird. It self corrected after
I told the system to redetect its hardware. It found
all sorts of things, and after about 4 reboots all was
well. XP seems to go through a testing phase before
it gets stable. I have no idea what it is doing, but I've
learned to reboot a new install until it quits doing that.

johns
 
I have a combi Drive and a DVD Writer in my PC once Sp2 has been installed
I lose one of the drives, if I swap the IDE cables around I still only get
the one drive. Ive swapped the cables and both are fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Max
Click to expand...
Install SATA drivers, hit F6 when xp first boots from cd-rom. Follow
prompts

Dan
 
Some drives insist on being master if another (optical) is on the same
channel, especially with SP2...


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