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Peripheral Drives Lost!
Name: Steve A Date: March 13, 2004 at 18:33:09 Pacific OS: Win 2000 Pro CPU/Ram: 2.6MHz/256M
Comment:
My system no longer recognizes the presence of disks in the CD-ROM or floppy disk drives. In the former case, Windows asks me to insert a disk (even though there is one present). In the latter case, Windows informs me that the disk is not formatted (even though it is), and asks me if I would like to format it (which attempt then fails). I have uninstalled and reinstalled these devices via Add/Remove Hardware, and they are reported as functioning normally by Device Manager and Computer Management. What is going on here?
Name: OtheHill Date: March 13, 2004 at 19:34:04 Pacific
Reply:
Did both problems occur at the same time?
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Response Number 2
Name: Steve A Date: March 13, 2004 at 20:19:57 Pacific
Reply:
Yes. Actually, all my other peripheral drives are behaving the same (CD-RW, USB key, optical drive)- they're all "present" but none of them recognize valid media.
Steve A
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: March 13, 2004 at 22:57:56 Pacific
Reply:
I suggest that you do a repair of win2000.
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Response Number 4
Name: Steve A Date: March 14, 2004 at 07:43:54 Pacific
Reply:
Problem solved by restoring a recent full Registry backup. Moral - always back up the Registry before making system changes that affect the Registry
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