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Lost CD Drive Letters
Name: teddy Date: November 24, 2004 at 01:47:54 Pacific OS: 98se CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
My problem is this- for some reason i've lost both my cd (cd-r/cd-rw)drive letters. When i look in my computer/explorer the drive letters E/F are not there. Looking into device manager shows no drives. Putting in a cd in shows no activity. I've trisd looking in the knowledge base but nothing lined up with my problem. I haven't installed any new hardware/software or played inside the PC. Any assistance would be appreciated. OS 98SE
Name: Dan Penny Date: November 24, 2004 at 03:12:58 Pacific
Reply:
Are the cdrom's showing up on your POST screen at bootup?
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Response Number 2
Name: Roy Hunter Date: November 24, 2004 at 03:14:43 Pacific
Reply:
Look in BIOS and see if they are listed there. If they are not, try and detect or install them in BIOS.
Post back
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Response Number 3
Name: raincheck Date: November 24, 2004 at 04:41:18 Pacific
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Does the performance tab in Device Manager say you are running in "MSDOS compatibility mode"? Go to device manager Click first entry for IDE controllers - Master Controller Right click, and choose "properties" In Dual IDE channel settings, choose "BOTH IDE channels enabled". If no luck, try this - Run Regedit HKEY Local Machine\system\currrentcontrolset\ services\vxd\ios DELETE NOIDE from right screen. If still no luck - It could also be a boot sector virus...Boot up on a 98 boot floppy, and at the A:\ prompt, type: FDISK /mbr Post back with results please.. raincheck
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: November 24, 2004 at 09:42:20 Pacific
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One bad drive on a channel can cause a problem with the other drive. Try connecting one drive at a time. If they both work alone on the channel, try splitting them up, one on each channel.
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: November 24, 2004 at 13:02:20 Pacific
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If the cdroms show up on the posting screen you may want to restore a previous registry. Exit to dos and at the prompt type:
scanreg/restore
and enter. Choose a registry to restore with a date that precedes the problem.
This often works if they disappear from 'my computer' for no reason. It won't work if there is an actual hardware problem.
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Response Number 6
Name: teddy Date: November 26, 2004 at 02:00:00 Pacific
Reply:
The problem has been resolved. One of the CD drives was the issue.
Thanks for all the help.
Teddy
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Response Number 7
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: November 26, 2004 at 03:02:50 Pacific
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