I used partition magic 7 to combine 2 partitions in win xp. Upon reboot my 2 cdrom's were gone. The computer says that it has loaded the drivers for them, but can not find the devices. Everything else works fine. I originally had a c: drive, d: drive, a: floppy, e: cdrom, and f: cdrom; now I have c: drive, a: floppy, but no cdrom's. Please help.

That no CDROM situation happened to me too when I was using Win2K. I was installing tons of burning software at once and after i rebooted the CDROM disappeared from the Device Manager. I had no clue how to fix the problem so I reinstalled Win2K again. If anyone knows how to solve the problem I'm happy to hear them!

Here's a link to an article from PowerQuest that might have a solution. The second half of this article is for Windows 95, but it might help for Win XP also. It essentially is having you manually assign drive letters to the CD-ROM drives. Hope it helps. http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id371.html Chip

I think XP might just be confused about the cdrom drive letters, because it usually has not problem pushing more on when you create new partitions, but i've seen problems deleting drive letters. Anwyway, you might want to check, in the administrative tools, under computer management. There is a section called disk management which basically gives you a layout of all your disks, including cd roms. Check to see if it shows your cdroms there; on the chance that it does, try right-clicking and change the drive letter to what you think it should be. Just a hunce, hope this helps.

Sounds like you need to run fidisk from a win 98 floppy create one partition using large disk support. format your drive then install your OS (XP), It might take a while but it works more reliable then P.M..

I have tried all of the above previous to posting the message, unfortunately none worked. I may have to be forced to formatting and the like---damn, I didn't want to do that. I will say that I love this message board, thanks!

This article doesn't mention anythind about Partition Magic, but it couldn't hurt to check the registry entries that are mentioned to see if they are there and causing the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314060