lost cd drives

Lost CD Drive Needs More Help, Please
John Myers johnmy...@argonet.co.uk comp sys acorn extra-cpu Having determined that I have lost my cd drive - !PC boots from floppy saying no cd rom drives, HPC_CD not loaded etc etc. I have reinstalled my old dos drive c, so I can at least get going again. But no cd and no way of reloading up the cd drive is there?

Uninstalled EZCD 5 and lost my CD drives inwinXP
Then after a machine restart my two CD drives are gone (not shown in Windows Explorer). In Device Manager they *do* show however, but the icons have a yellow exclamation mark, indicating trouble. The text amounts to (Code 31) "Windows 2000 could not load the correct drivers for this device".

ALSO LOST MY CD DRIVES ON XP!!!!!!!!
For some reason, my system has stopped finding the CD drive (Sony CDU5211) on the secondary IDE master (no slave present either). I know it's not the cable nor drive because all of my other operating systems find the drive just fine (multi-boot system). What needs re-adjusting? TIA Pete --

Lost cd drive in Win98 (was installation problem)
I can't as they're all on CD and my CD drives aren't being recognized. I tried right clicking on "my computer" and it gave me some weird error message about some rundll something or other missing. Regedit cannot be found. I checked the BIOS and the D and E drives are not showing up there.

Lost D Drive
In any event, My Computer and Windows Explorer now shows A, B, C, D, E and F drives as they were originally!!! I hope this means progress and we are getting close... Unfortunately they don't work yet. My first thought was to back up those 600MB of files and to check my W98 CD for drivers or info on the IDE

lost cd drive
... will check although don't think this is the problem. The cables have a noth on the plug so it's difficult/impossible to fix the wrong way. Another thing to check is that if the old cable was a "Cable Select" cable, and if the new cable isn't, then you need to jumper the drives as master/slave instead. RwP.

Lost cd drive in Win98 (was installation problem)
Dave Cooper d...@argonet.co.uk comp sys acorn extra-cpu In article <490a367947johnmy...@argonet.co.uk>, John Myers <johnmy...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: Having determined that I have lost my cd drive - !PC boots from floppy saying no cd rom drives, HPC_CD not loaded etc etc. I have reinstalled my old dos drive c,

Old XPS-R, Lost CD Drive and Tape Drive
microsoft.com comp os ms-windows win95 misc I added a new HD to my system and got it running all correct, and then my CD has dissappeard from the list. I bet you have a compressed drive, too. When you compress a drive, Windows hides the host drive so you don't get confused. But when you add a new HD,

Lost CD Drive
If you see the MS-DOS compatibility mode message, check out the following article: Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=130179 PattyL "Pete" <sp58e...@sbcnospamglobal.net> wrote in message news:dyNtG3SnKjcq-pn2-G5SSJcEfoNot@localhost... Suddenly lost my CD drive

I have lost my CD drives
I lost the D drive and had formatted the C drive because it was so small 234MB now I can't load W95, I tried a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com and it says that there is no CD to load. What am I doing wrong I've loaded W3.11 again via floppies? James How does the CDROM drive connect to the system?

Lost use of CD Rom after installing Jaz Drive
"Michael McIntyre" <m.mcint...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:5YH67.9211$SK6.1134052@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com... windows me has lost the cd r/rw drive and the dvd drive the dvd drive is a pioneer dvd-rom 116 and the cd r/rw is a philips 8x4x32 cdd4401 can some one get me the drivers to run these in

SONY laptop. lost dvd while installing linux
Your may also chekc your hard drive controller in device manager to see if it has a yellow ! next to it (you need to expand the harddrive controller to see the various parts Suddenly lost my CD drive on secondary IDE master. I know it's not the drive because Linux and OS/2 find it and use it with no problem.

Lost CD/DVD drives in win2k after unistall of ECDC 5.01
Bob I bire...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 windows_update Includes some Code 19 errors Cannot Access CD-ROM and "Code 31" Error Message in Device Manager gb12...@cableone.net wrote: I just loaded Win2K Pro SP4 and after the reboot I have no CD drives. Using the troubleshooter I uninstalled the drives,

HELP! CD drive and DVD both lost!
Bob Guzman bguz...@concentric.net microsoft public win98 disks general I have lost my CD drive. I cannot find it in "My Computer." I rebooted my computer a few times and it doesn't come up. What is wrong? I will check the wiring tomorrow (I'm at work now). Did the drive go bad or what? any thoughts?? --

Lost both CD's. Need advice.
The CD Drive was there, but is now gone. The computer was working. I was going to install Juno.com (full version). Before I did this, I did a scan disk and defrag. The scan disk hadn't been done for 629 days. The C Drive was 7% fragged. The D Drive 2%. This computer has plenty of free drive space, but is running

Lost CD Drive
Also try disabling the controller on the sound card, as a last resort (and just to see if it works) try plugging the drive into the controller on the soundcard (assuming it is an IDE controller). Good luck and I hope this helps:) jls wrote: I just replaced my cd drive. From 4x to Creative Labs 48x.

not detecting cd drive at all and lost my dual IDE channel
Then I see I have lost my 2 cd-rom drives; one is a cd-rw drive and the other a 24x cd drive. The former doesn't even get power. The add new hardward wizard cannot detect any new hardware. No yellow exclamation points in the system-devices area, and no CD drives are listed at all. The system does not recognize the

Lost cd drives win 2k tricky one this one!
My hard drives are in ms-dos compatability mode and my cd drives have dissappeared from "my computer" and device manager. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Michael System: Win98se Primary master Seagate 20.5 G primary slave Ricoh 31x12x10 Secondary master Quantum 2.5 G secondary slave Sony 24x Celeron 450 BX

Lost CD drive
I have a lot of trouble getting the cd-drives to work properly when I give the boot parameters (in "lilo.conf" format): append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" Without these options, the drive appear as normal ide drives "/dev/hdc" and "/dev/hdd" and when I call, With the ide-scsi options, the list is empty: no drives

Lost CD drive
I lost my cd drive: The power in my neighborhood went out , my computer was on. When the power came back up, I rebooted and it would only start in the safe mode. I spent a better part of the day fixing it, so now it is running fine. But now my problem is that I don't have a hint of a CD drive, no icon in the my