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Drives not being recognised
Name: Albroun Date: December 6, 2007 at 04:28:08 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: AMD 2.4 / 1GB Ram
Comment:
Recently my machine stopped recognising its CD drives - both the internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive and an external USB DVD RW drive. Yet it will recognise a pen drive plugged into the USB port, but not an external hard drive. Both the internal hard drives are showing OK. So am mystified!!
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: December 6, 2007 at 08:09:01 Pacific
Reply:
Are they showing in Disk Management?
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Response Number 2
Name: Albroun Date: December 6, 2007 at 08:47:50 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks CD/DVD drive not showing in Disk Management. Does show in Device Manager with an exclamation mark but reinstalling driver has not worked. Shows in the BIOS - nothing amiss here afaik.
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: December 6, 2007 at 12:56:02 Pacific
Reply:
Remove the CD drive from Device Manager and reboot.
When the other drives are connected, are they showing in Disk Management?
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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Response Number 4
Name: Albroun Date: December 28, 2007 at 05:43:05 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks. Tried that but did not work either. What is so weird is that my computer will not even recognise an EXTERNAL USB CD/DVD drive, nor an EXTERNAL hard drive. But it does recognise USB pen drives!
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