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CD/ROMand DVD/RW drives not showing
Name: JackMan Date: August 15, 2005 at 19:50:57 Pacific OS: Win XP Home SP2 CPU/Ram: 1 gig
Comment:
Have power to both drives, but in the Device list, they are shown with Yellow !. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing. They don't appear in the directories either.
Error message when checking Properties:
Windows cannot load the device drivers for this hardware. Drivers may be corrupt or missing.
Name: ham30 Date: August 15, 2005 at 20:12:16 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure that they are cabled correctly? Are you sure that they are plugged Master/Slave correctly (one Master and the other Slave)?
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Response Number 2
Name: JackMan Date: August 15, 2005 at 20:50:49 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks, yes. I have tried every conceivable way as far as jumpers. I set the first one on the cable as master and the second as slave.
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Response Number 3
Name: ghimpe-- Date: August 16, 2005 at 02:28:05 Pacific
Reply:
Try to split them to different IDE cables, ie: having one pared up with the system OS drive on the primary IDE chanel and having the other on the Secondary IDE channel. It should look something like this:
Primary Master: HDD with OS Primary Slave: CD-ROm Secondary Master:DVD-RW Secondary Slave: other hdd
It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice...
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Response Number 4
Name: GerryC Date: August 16, 2005 at 05:23:28 Pacific
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