lost cd drives

Lost my DVD and CD drives
Dave Waters [UK] davidwat...@email.com alt cd-rom After a crash whilst playing Half-Life, forcing a power off re-boot, my CD drive (previously drive D:), is not detected in BIOS (Award) or Windows 95. How can I restore? Regards Dave.

cd-drives lost with "ide-scsi" option
I deleted both drives and rebooted. Win 2000 found both as new hardware and tried to install. I got the message that there was no microsoft signature and also an error 31. Both drives share same ribbon one master the other slave. I have not been able to re-install either cd drive. I physically disconected each

Lost my CD drives <CIMEBOAT-Walter>correction and update
Easy CD Creator keeps trying to install even after it's installed. But now my CD drive doesn't appear in the "My Computer" window and I can't read the software disk. I've uninstalled the CD hardware and reinstalled it, but it still does not appear. Thoughts?

lost interrupt hell - Plea for Help
Rod Speed rod.speed....@gmail.com alt comp hardware da...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Rod Speed wrote: da...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Please help after having a power surge and frying my power supply i fitted a new power supply and when restarted my pc the dvd and cd drives have gone looked in bios not ther either

Lost my CD-RW; can't restore
REM - It loads drivers for the PD drive and the CD drive. REM - (The PD drive is a combo: removable AND a CD in one unit. Requires the aspidisk AND the aspicd drivers. SYS following your CD-ROM device driver. REM - If you have only a single CDROM drive that is REM - normally set up as D:, use the following,

I have lost my CD drives
<big snip> Xocyll - although Atari intended that you had to have the CD in the drive to play, you CAN get around that. As I mentioned, I made copies of my However, what I use to play NWN/SoU is DaemonTools (freeware) which allows you to create virtual CD drives in your hard disk. You can use any software that

Lost 2 cd drives
My noisy drive is noisy no more... www.flyinglizard.freeserve.co.uk Nice. Unfortunately there's a bit of horizontal scrolling to do on a 1024x768 display :-( It never really clicked at first, but i did wonder about havinf to scroll both directions to see much at all of the page !!

lost cd drive
Peacenet Balkans Desk pnbalk...@igc.apc.org comp os ms-windows win95 misc Scott Bailey wrote: My Win 95 lost all knowledge of my D drive, the cd-rom drive. I've done the Add/Remove Hardware function, but it doesn't see it that way. How can I get windows to see the D drive again? Some of us have been asking for help

cd-drives lost with "ide-scsi" option
After the installation, she was unable to read (or even see) her CD rom drives. Her system specs (simply put) are: 1.67GHz 512MB RAM Operating System: XP Drive d: Sony CDU5211 CD Drive Drive e: Acer Atapi CD-R/RW 16x10x40 She did a system restore to before installing the programs and both drives are there.

Lost CD drive letter
END Quote You seem to be missing that 'DOS CD-Rom driver' As the Guide then states 'the quickest solution is usually to start the installation again.' Another point to note (if you do re-install) from the guide is that it makes the CD drive Drive M whereas the Windows install will expect it to be drive D. Sorry if

Lost CD Drive In Windows Explorer and My Computer!!!
I've thought about reinstalling Windows, but it's on CD! I am not sure wheather it heelps to reinstall Windows, but for this case you have made the Emergency Boot Disk. Boot the PC from that disk to load a generic CD ROM driver and start the reinstallation. (tm)

Lost CD drives in w98
Be sure the assigned drive letters are different for each. The CD will be under CDROM instead of Disk Drives. CJon remove L Morgan wrote: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion Re: Lost CD drive On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:01:16 -0600, "Tess" <t...@feist.com> wrote: If you have "TweakUI", check its "My Computer" tab

Lost CD Drive
Txl t...@free.fr alt os windows-xp Hello Installed a brand new XP pro, then installed office2000 and other stuff from the cd (so it worked) and now the CD drives (1 writer and 1 reader) do not appear in the "my computer" thing, if I go to the devgice manager they appear, but are with the yellow mark and it says that

Lost CD drive with W2K
From: "Adrian Miller (cRoxio)" Due to late last minute changes in Windows 2000, between final RC and the Gold Master, packet writing was made impossible in Windows 2000 with the CD-ROM drivers supplied by Microsoft. In order to resolve this situation Adaptec SPG, now Roxio, had to develop a replacement for the

Lost access to CD-rom from DOS
... Creator from Your Computer http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;270008 jlm wrote: I had this problem with a xp machine and there was a solution which I lost, but now i'm running win2000 and today I can not see my cd drive listed has anyone ever had this problem? if so is there a fix? thanks.

Challenge: XP Pro Internal CD Drive Completely Lost! Please Help!
If the tape drive is Ben> failed or failing and it is attached to the IDE cable, its failure could cause Ben> the system to not recognize the IDE drive... Ben Myers I believe the tape drive is ide. Replace cost for the drive is more than the old box is worth. But it will be nice to get the cd drive back. Thanks.

Lost WIN95B "CD-ROM Setup Boot Disk"
The new motherboard has the KT266A chipset, but the CD drives are _not_ connected to that chipset's IDE ports. I am getting "lost interrupt" messages when I try to rip audio from the drives, or even mount ISO9660 discs (which do eventually succeed, they just take over a minute to mount).

HELP! Lost CD-Rom drives (Compatability Mode Problem)
(Code 31) All drivers there, latest version and copied from backup in case (cdrom.inf/cdrom.sys and a .dll) Lost for ideas. Any clues please? I do NOT want to reinstall on this complicated setup. (nothing added since drives worked!) rgds JR, Watchet, UK.

Lost CD drive
When I slide a cd into the cd drive and it opens and closes like the trooper it is and then does....nothing. Nothing at all. I so then i decided to go to my computer and double click on the little picture of the cd to start it(basic but it works). But again to my suprise...no pictures of cd,s.

Lost CD Drive Please Help
My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager. Good trick. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Probably best to try installing Win98SE over the current installation. You shouldnt lose anything doing that but it would be best to backup