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Old May 21st 04, 03:43 AM
Dan
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Default DVD is a local drive not a cd drive

Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
site!!

Dan
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Old May 22nd 04, 07:04 AM
Noel Paton
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Default DVD is a local drive not a cd drive

Try this
Boot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
Remove ALL HDs
Remove the Master IDE Controller

Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the required drivers (may
take a couple of reboots)

See if that cures it.
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"Dan" wrote in message
...
Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
site!!

Dan



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Old May 22nd 04, 06:19 PM
Dan
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Default DVD is a local drive not a cd drive

Noel,
Thanks, but this did not work. It only took one boot to
have the drivers reinstalled and when I removed the master
IDE controller, it left the primary and secondary
controllers there. Is this a problem?

Dan
-----Original Message-----
Try this
Boot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
Remove ALL HDs
Remove the Master IDE Controller

Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the

required drivers (may
take a couple of reboots)

See if that cures it.
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post

messages to NG's
or
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"Dan" wrote in message
...
Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
site!!

Dan



.

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Old May 23rd 04, 11:28 AM
Noel Paton
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Default DVD is a local drive not a cd drive

Nope - that's normal.
In Device Manager, open the Properties page for the DVD - what does it say?

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Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Dan" wrote in message
...
Noel,
Thanks, but this did not work. It only took one boot to
have the drivers reinstalled and when I removed the master
IDE controller, it left the primary and secondary
controllers there. Is this a problem?

Dan
-----Original Message-----
Try this
Boot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
Remove ALL HDs
Remove the Master IDE Controller

Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the

required drivers (may
take a couple of reboots)

See if that cures it.
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post

messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp
"Dan" wrote in message
...
Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
site!!

Dan



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