I have recently clean installed winXP on my second computer. Everything is fine except that it does not rcognize properly my DVD and CD-writer drives. First boot after the installation when I clicked on my computer I had the DVD drive listed in device manager. Everything was fine. When I rebooted it desapeared and in it's place I had my CD writer appear. I checked it was working fine. Drivers in place in device manager. So I rebooted again and...same story all over. The drivers are up to date since I only had this computer for a couple of months. This happens at very reboot. It's very annoying. I would appreciate some help:) PIII 1Ghz, 256 RAM 40G hard disk Teac Cd-W 512EB A-open DVD 1240ash Thanks:)

Sounds like a potential conflict between the master/slave settings on the drives. If your motherboard supports "cable select" (I believe most modern boards do), set the jumpers on the drive for cable select. Otherwise, set the drive at the end of the cable to "master" and the drive in the middle of the cable as "slave." Hope this helps. Good luck, mike

Good answer from mitime.. Some times XP kind of drops the drives, after my experiense i only had to update my bios (not upgrade, like flash or something) Edit your bios an try to locate/find your harddrive, then set the other IDÈ (master/slave) to auto.. think that can help..

Thanks guys:)I got it:)