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cdrw drive is invisable on my system
sometime ago my zip and cdrw drive stopped working.. they were both on the
same ide cable. i deduced through trouble shooting that the channel is no longer working, which is fine. i purchased another cdrw and replaced my cd rom with it (using the same cables and jumper selections) and my computer will not recognize it. i put the cd rom back in place, it works fine and is also seen. so, while i had the cd rom back i loaded the adaptec cdrw software, i went to dell did some updates, ( i already did microsoft updates because i reformatted my hard drive), check my bios to make sure ide channels were on auto then i put the cdrw back and it still is not seen by device manager. this is insane. the doors open and close on it. i put a cd in it and starts to whir so i know it functions. |
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cdrw drive is invisable on my system
I suspect that your secondary IDE controller is in MS-DOS mode. See this
article. Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=130179 PattyL "dpipel" wrote in message ... sometime ago my zip and cdrw drive stopped working.. they were both on the same ide cable. i deduced through trouble shooting that the channel is no longer working, which is fine. i purchased another cdrw and replaced my cd rom with it (using the same cables and jumper selections) and my computer will not recognize it. i put the cd rom back in place, it works fine and is also seen. so, while i had the cd rom back i loaded the adaptec cdrw software, i went to dell did some updates, ( i already did microsoft updates because i reformatted my hard drive), check my bios to make sure ide channels were on auto then i put the cdrw back and it still is not seen by device manager. this is insane. the doors open and close on it. i put a cd in it and starts to whir so i know it functions. |
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